Church Roman Catholic Role Ambassador Appointed March 27, 1809 Nationality French Ordination June 1783 | In office 1809-1815 Consecration February 2, 1805 Archdiocese Mechelen Died March 18, 1837, Auvergne | |
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Born April 23, 1759
Allanche, Kingdom of France ( 1759-04-23 ) Previous post Bishop of Poitiers (1805-1808) Name Dominique-Georges-Frederic de Successor Francois Antoine Marie Constantin de Mean et de Beaurieux Predecessor Jean-Armand de Bessuejouls Roquelaure | ||
Abbé Dominique G. F. de Rion de Prolhiac Dufour or de Fourt de Pradt (23 April 1759 in Allanches (Auvergne, France – 18 March 1837 in Paris) was a French clergyman and ambassador.
In 1804 he became a secretary of Napoleon, in 1805 Bishop of Poitiers. On 12 May 1808 he was appointed as archbishop of Mechelen (resigned in 1815). In 1812 he was awarded the position of the French ambassador in Warsaw, preparing the Concordat of 1813. After the Napoleonic wars he published a series of books which portrayed Russia as a "despotic" and "Asiatic" power hungry to conquer Europe.
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