Dominique, cardinal de LA ROCHEFOUCAULD (1712-1800), archbis - Lot 300

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Dominique, cardinal de LA ROCHEFOUCAULD (1712-1800), archbis - Lot 300
Dominique, cardinal de LA ROCHEFOUCAULD (1712-1800), archbishop of Albi then of Rouen, primate of Normandy, constituent, he opposed the constitution and emigrated in 1792. L.A.S. to Champion de Cicé. 2 pp. in-4. Maestricht, 25 Oct. 1792. Small sallissure and tear in corner. After his departure in exile. He received the pastoral letter given to his diocese and would like it to be spread throughout the kingdom. "I have been here for a month, I have found relatives who console me for the losses and the evils I have experienced. I have found on my way a great number of deported clergymen who are going to seek in a foreign country a tranquility that they would not have found in their homeland; help is quite abundant in charity and in ministry work; but England has never been so hospitable, I am convinced that you have not been unaware of all the good that Mr. I am convinced that you have not been unaware of all the good that the Bishop of St. Paul de Léon, the repository of the favors of the nation, is doing for the poor French clergy, secular or regular [] ".
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