Louis-Marie-Edmond Blanquart de Bailleul (1795, Calais - 1868) was a French
Roman Catholic
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bishop. He worked as a lawyer for a time, before becoming the third
bishop of Versailles
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Versailles (Latin: ''Dioecesis Versaliensis''; French language, French: ''Diocèse de Versailles'') is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church, in France. The diocese, headed by the Bishop of Versail ...
(1832-1844) and then
archbishop of Rouen
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rouen (Latin: ''Archidioecesis Rothomagensis''; French: ''Archidiocèse de Rouen'') is an archdiocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in France. As one of the fifteen Archbishops of France, the Ar ...
(1844-1858). As bishop of
Versailles
The Palace of Versailles ( ; french: Château de Versailles ) is a former royal residence built by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, about west of Paris, France. The palace is owned by the French Republic and since 1995 has been managed, u ...
, on 18 October 1837 he presided over the Catholic marriage service of
Princess Marie of Orléans and
Duke Alexander of Württemberg at Versailles, and in 1843 he consecrated Versailles's main town church as the
cathedral
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of the 33-year-old diocese.
External links
*https://web.archive.org/web/20080227011536/http://www.visite-de-rouen.com/eveques.htm
*http://www.cathedrale-versailles.org/histoire_anglais.php
1795 births
1868 deaths
Archbishops of Rouen
Bishops of Versailles
19th-century French Roman Catholic bishops
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