Michel-Celse-Roger de Bussy-Rabutin

Michel-Celse-Roger de Bussy-Rabutin (1669 – 3 November 1736) was a French churchman.

Life

The second son of count Roger de Bussy-Rabutin, he was bishop of Luçon from 1723 until his death. He attended the salon of Madame de Tencin and was elected to the Académie française on 21 February 1732, without having written a single work, and was received into the Académie by Fontenelle the following 6 March. In 1735 he commissioned a portrait of himself from Hyacinthe Rigaud without knowing how he would pay for it - the artist's account books state "Monsieur the bishop of Lucon, Bussy Rabutin. Remains half finished."^[1].

Notes

1. ^ J. Roman, Le livre de raison du peintre Hyacinthe Rigaud, Paris, 1919, p. 212.

External links

• Académie française

Preceded by Jean-François de l'Escure de Valderil

Bishop of Luçon 1723–1736

Succeeded by Samuel-Guillaume de Verthamon de Chavagnac

Preceded by Antoine Houdar de La Motte

Seat 14 of the Académie française 1732-1736

Succeeded by Étienne Lauréault de Foncemagne

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Name	Bussy-Rabutin
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Date of birth	1669
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Date of death	3 November 1736
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