Bernardin François Fouquet (8 January 1705, Rennes – 20 April 1785,
Paris
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) was a
French Catholic prelate
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,
Cardinal,
abbot
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and
archbishop of Embrun from 1740 to 1767.
[Forme nominale donnée par l'Annuaire Pontifical.]
Family
Bernardin François Fouquet was the son of
René-François Fouquet La Bonne Bouchefolière and his wife
Suzanne Gentile. He came from a collateral line of the family of Nicolas Fouquet and is a distant relative of Marshal
Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet.
Career
Cathédrale Notre-Dame d'Embrun.Destined to an
ecclesiastical career, he studied and became a
doctor of theology and received as
stipend
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from the church ''Combes. Oblate of St. Benedict in Narbonne'' in April 1727, he was abbot of the
Abbey of St. Peter and St. Paul de Caunes from the 27th of the same month. He was a general agent of the clergy of France appointed by the Province of Toulouse from 25 May 1735 to 1740
After 35 years he was appointed to,
Archbishop of Embrun on 5 December 1740 after taking an oath to the king. He was dedicated on 8 January 1741 by
Gilbert Gaspard de Montmorin Saint-Hérem, Bishop-Comte of Langres and
Cardinal Étienne-René Gesvres Potier,
Bishop of Beauvais-Comte. As
Archbishop of Embrun, he carried the title of "Prince and Chamberlain of the Holy Roman Empire."
After twenty five years of episcopate without highlight except his piety, his health had "altered because of the climate of the
Alps
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", he resigned his
archbishopric
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History
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associa ...
on 17 April 1767, after a bequeath from 3000 pounds to the Ladies hospital in Grenoble. He receives commendation
St. Peter Abbey of Couture in the
diocese of Le Mans.
He died in
Paris
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on 25 May 1785.
References
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Bishops of Embrun
18th-century French cardinals
University of Paris alumni
18th-century French people
