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Died 20 April 1785, Paris, France | ||
Bernardin François Fouquet, born January 8, 1705 in Rennes and died April 20, 1785 in Paris, was a French Catholic prelate, Cardinal, abbot and archbishop of Embrun from 1740 to 1767.
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Family
Bernardin François Fouquet was the son of René-François Fouquet La Bonne Bouchefolière and his wife Suzanne Gentile. He came from a collateral line of the family of Nicolas Fouquet and is a distant relative of Marshal Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet.
Career
Destined to an ecclesiastical career, he studied and became a doctor of theology and received as stipend from the church Combes. Oblate of St. Benedict in Narbonne in April 1727, he was abbot of the Abbey of St. Peter and St. Paul de Caunes from the 27th of the same month. He was a general agent of the clergy of France appointed by the Province of Toulouse May 25, 1735 to 1740
After 35 years he was appointed to, Archbishop of Embrun on 5 December 1740 after taking an oath to the king. He was dedicated January 8, 1741 by Gilbert Gaspard de Montmorin Saint-Hérem, Bishop-Comte of Langres and Cardinal Étienne-René Gesvres Potier, Bishop of Beauvais-Comte. As Archbishop of Embrun, he carried the title of "Prince and Chamberlain of the Holy Roman Empire."
After twenty five years of episcopate without highlight except his piety, his health had "altered because of the climate of the Alps", he resigned his archbishopric on April 17, 1767, after a bequeath from 3000 pounds to the Ladies hospital in Grenoble. He receives commendation St. Peter Abbey of Couture in the diocese of Le Mans.
He died in Paris May 25, 1785.