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HARLAY DE CHAMPVALLON, See also:

FRANCOIS DE (1625-1695) , 5th See also:archbishop of See also:Paris, was See also:born in that See also:city on the 14th of See also:August 1625. See also:Nephew of Francois de Harlay, archbishop of See also:Rouen, he was presented to the See also:abbey of Jumieges immediately on leaving the See also:College de See also:Navarre, and he was only twenty-six when he succeeded his See also:uncle in the archiepiscopal see. He was transferred to the see of Paris in 1671, he was nominated by the See also:king for the cardinalate in 169o, and the domain of St See also:Cloud was erected into a duchy in his favour. He was See also:commander of the See also:order of the See also:Saint Esprit and a member of the See also:French See also:Academy. During the See also:early See also:part of his See also:political career he was a See also:firm adherent of See also:Mazarin, and is said to have helped to procure his return from See also:exile. His private See also:life gave rise to much See also:scandal, but he had a See also:great capacity for business, considerable learning, and was an eloquent and persuasive See also:speaker. He definitely secured the favour of See also:Louis XIV. by his support of the claims of the Gallican See also:Church formulated by the See also:declaration made by the See also:clergy in See also:assembly on the 19th of See also:March 1682, when See also:Bossuet accused him of truckling to the See also:court like a See also:valet. One of the three witnesses of the king's See also:marriage with Madame de See also:Maintenon, he was hated by her for using his See also:influence with the king to keep the See also:matter See also:secret. He had a weekly See also:audience of Louis XIV. in See also:company with Pere la See also:Chaise on the affairs of the Church in Paris, but his influence gradually declined, and Saint-See also:Simon, who See also:bore him no See also:good will for his harsh attitude to the Jansenists. says that his See also:friends deserted him as the royal favour waned, until at last most of his See also:time was spent at Conflans in company with the duchess of See also:Lesdiguieres, who alone was faithful to him. He urged the revocation of the See also:edict of See also:Nantes, and showed great severity to the See also:Huguenots at See also:Dieppe, of which he was temporal and spiritual See also:lord. He died suddenly, without having received the sacraments, on the 6th of August 1695. His funeral discourse was delivered by the Pere See also:Gaillard, and Mme de See also:Sevigne made on the occasion the severe comment that there were only two trifles to make this a difficult matter—his life and his See also:death.

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Abbe See also:Legendre, Vita Francisci de Harlay (Paris, 172o) and Eloge de Harlay (1695) ; Saint-Simon, Memoires (vol. ii., ed. A. de Boislisle, 1879), and numerous references in the Lettres of Mme de Sevigne.

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