Michel-Celse-Roger de Bussy-Rabutin (1669 – 3 November 1736) was a French churchman and diplomat.
Biography
The second son of
Count
Count (feminine: countess) is a historical title of nobility in certain European countries, varying in relative status, generally of middling rank in the hierarchy of nobility. Pine, L. G. ''Titles: How the King Became His Majesty''. New York: ...
Roger de Bussy-Rabutin, he served as
Bishop of Luçon from 1723 until his death. He attended the salon of
Madame de Tencin; he was elected to the
Académie française on 21 February 1732, without having written a single work, being sponsored into the French Academy by
Fontenelle the following 6 March. In 1735 he commissioned a portrait of himself by
Hyacinthe Rigaud
Jacint Rigau-Ros i Serra (; 18 July 1659 – 29 December 1743), known in French as Hyacinthe Rigaud (), was a Catalan-French baroque painter most famous for his portraits of Louis XIV and other members of the French nobility.
Biography
Rigaud ...
without knowing how he would pay for it – the artist's accounting books state "Monsieur the Bishop of Luçon, Bussy-Rabutin. Remains half-finished.".
[J. Roman, ''Le livre de raison du peintre Hyacinthe Rigaud'', Paris, 1919, p. 212.]
See also
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List of Ambassadors of France to the United Kingdom
References
External links
Académie française
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1669 births
1736 deaths
Bishops of Luçon
French diplomats