François Richardot (Franciscus) (1507-1574), was a celebrated Burgundian-French Catholic preacher, and confessor to

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. He was

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from 1561 to 1574. He was an

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, and became titular bishop of Nicopolis in 1554. He preached the sermon at the funeral of the Emperor Charles V, and at the inauguration in 1562 of the

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he was one of the preachersPDF
in French.

Publications

*''Quatre sermons du sacrement de l'autel'' (Leuven,

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References

* Léon Duflot (1897), ''Un orateur du 16e siècle: François Richardot évêque d'Arras''

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Richardot, Francois 1507 births 1574 deaths French rhetoricians Bishops of Arras 16th-century French Roman Catholic bishops French male writers