Pierre de La Broue (8 February 1644,

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- 20 September 1720,

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was a French bishop. He was part of the 'Apellant' movement within

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, which called for the summoning of a church council to discuss the anti-Jansenist papal bull ''

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''.

Life

From a family of magistrates from

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, he chose a career in the church and around 24 went to study in

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, where he became a doctor of theology. He was also a favourite preacher at the French royal court (according to

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, he "preached once before the King", at

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on 2 February 1679) and heavily linked to

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. He preached the funerary oration for

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, wife of the dauphin. In 1679 he was made

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and founded a large seminary at Mazères as well as smaller ones at

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and

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. Whilst bishop he set up a confraternity of pity at Mirepoix and carried out several charitable works. He also aimed to be made deputy to the

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, a request which was never granted. In 1694 he was elected 'mainteneur' of the Acadèmia dels Jòcs Florals, where as a young man he had been praised for a work entitled ''Adieu aux muses profanes''. With the bishops of

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(

Jean Soanen Jean Soanen (1647–1740) was a French Oratorian and bishop of Senez. He was a convinced Jansenist. In opposition to the papal bull ''Unigenitus'', he with Charles-Joachim Colbert, bishop of Montpellier, Pierre de la Broue who was bishop of Mire ...

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) and

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(

Pierre de Langle Pierre de Langle (6 March 1643, in Evreux – 12 April 1724, in Boulogne-Sur-Mer) was a French bishop and Jansenist theologian. Life At the request of his friend Bossuet, he was made tutor to Louis Alexandre, Count of Toulouse. He was abbot of S ...

), he opposed the bull ''Unigenitus''.Picot, Michel Joseph, ''Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire ecclésiastique pendant le dix-huitième siècle'', 1717 According to his wishes, La Broue was buried at the seminary in Mazères.

Works

* ''Oraison funèbre de très haute, très puissante et excellente princesse Marie-Anne-Christine de Bavière, dauphine de France, prononcée à Saint-Denis, le 5 juin 1690, par messire Pierre de La Broüe'' (1690) * ''Catéchisme du diocèse de Mirepoix. Par le commandement de monseigneur l'illustrissime & révérendissime Pierre de La Broüe évêque de Mirepoix, conseiller du Roy en ses conseils'' (1699) * ''Première Lettre pastorale de Mgr La Broüe aux nouveaux réunis de son diocèse'' (1702) * ''Projet de mandement et d'instruction pastorale de M. l'évêque de Mirepoix au sujet de la constitution de N. S. P. le Pape, du 8 septembre 1713'' (1714) * ''Défense de la grâce efficace par elle-mesme, par feu Mre Pierre de La Brouë'' (1721)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:La Broue, Pierre Clergy from Toulouse 1644 births 1720 deaths Bishops of Mirepoix