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BEAUMONT, CHRISTOPHE DE (1703-1781)

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BEAUMONT, CHRISTOPHE DE (1703-1781) , See also:French ecclesiastic and See also:archbishop of See also:Paris, was a See also:cadet of the See also:Les Adrets and See also:Saint-Quentin See also:branch of the illustrious See also:Dauphine See also:family of Beaumont. He became See also:bishop of See also:Bayonne in 1741, then See also:arch-bishop of See also:Vienne in 1743, and in 1746, at the See also:age of See also:forty-three, archbishop of Paris. Beaumont is noted for his struggle with the Jansenists. To force them to accept the See also:bull Unigenitus which condemned their doctrines, he ordered the priests of his See also:diocese to refuse See also:absolution to those who would not recognize the bull, and to deny funeral See also:rites to those who had confessed to a Jansenist See also:priest. While other bishops sent Beaumont their See also:adhesion to his crusade, the See also:parlement of Paris threatened to confiscate his temporalities. The See also:king forbade the parlement to interfere in these spiritual questions, and upon its proving obdurate it was exiled (See also:September 18, 1753). The " royal chamber," which was substituted, having failed to carry on the See also:administration of See also:justice properly, the king was obliged to recall the parlement, and the archbishop was sent into See also:honourable See also:exile (See also:August 1754). An effort was made to induce him to resign the active duties of his see to a coadjutor, but in spite of the most tempting offers—including a See also:cardinal's hat—he refused. On the contrary, to his polemic against the Jansenists he added an attack on the philosophes, and issued a formal mandatory See also:letter condemning See also:Rousseau's Emile. Rousseau replied in his masterly Lettre a M. de Beaumont (1762), in which he insists that freedom of discussion in religious matters is essentially more religious than the See also:attempt to impose belief by force. De Beaumont's Mandements, lettres et instructions pastorales were published in two volumes in 178o, the See also:year before his See also:death.

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