PAS-DE-CALAIS. Louis Hilaire de CONZIÉ (1736-1805), bishop o - Lot 307

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PAS-DE-CALAIS. Louis Hilaire de CONZIÉ (1736-1805), bishop o - Lot 307
PAS-DE-CALAIS. Louis Hilaire de CONZIÉ (1736-1805), bishop of Arras (1775-1795), he followed the count of Artois in emigration then became chaplain of the prince of Condé whom he followed in Italy, Germany, Russia and Great Britain. 3 L.A.S. to Champion de Cicé. 7 pp. in-4. Steinbach on the Rhine and Edinburgh, 1794-1799. An address on the back with wax seal. 1794. He is at the HQ of the prince of Condé and learns of his departure for Spain; he is going to transmit his instructions to the count of Artois. "The party that you take, Monseigneur, is as prudent as courageous []". 1799. Two letters on their disagreements about the discussions with the other prelates exiled in London. "The article of your letter by which you announced to me, Monseigneur, that you counted on my suffrage, obliged me to take information, as well on facts which I ignored, as on the reality of your grievances. You told me that you were sure of the opinion of all the most enlightened and virtuous members of the clergy. It is those of our order that I thought I recognized in this designation []. You are ill-founded to flatter yourself with their suffrage: they have assured me that all our colleagues will continue to maintain you in the possession of the rights which you have to their justice []. The four prelates named by you in this letter and whom you believe to be, some your enemies and others unofficially involved in your interests, being as generally esteemed and considered by the public as they are revered in our order, it would be painful for me to be in opposition to one of them, if there were, which I cannot believe, a real difference in their dispositions with regard to you [] ".
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