Jean Georges Lefranc De Pompignan

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Jean Georges Lefranc de Pompignan (22 February 1715 in

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– 29 December 1790 in

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) was a French clergyman, younger brother of

Jean-Jacques Lefranc, Marquis de Pompignan Jean-Jacques Lefranc (also Le Franc), Marquis de Pompignan (10 August 1709 – 1 November 1784) was a French man of letters and erudition, who published a considerable output of theatrical work, poems, literary criticism, and polemics; treatises o ...

. Pompignan was the

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against whose defense of the faith

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launched the good-natured mockery of ''Les Lettres d'un

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''. Elected to the Estates General, he passed over to the Liberal side, and led the 149 members of the clergy who united with the third estate to form the

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. He was one of its first presidents, and was minister of public worship when the Civil Constitution of the Clergy was forced upon the clergy. 1715 births 1790 deaths French untitled nobility Bishops of Le Puy-en-Velay Archbishops of Vienne {{france-bishop-stub