Alexandre Angélique de Talleyrand-Périgord

Alexandre Angélique de Talleyrand-Périgord (16 October 1736, Paris - 20 October 1821, Paris) was a French churchman and politician, and the paternal uncle of Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754-1838).

Life

Education

*collège de La Flèche at Paris ;
*seminary of Saint-Sulpice at Paris, which he left with a "licence" in theology ;
*faculty of law at Reims (licence in canon law and civil law) ;

Ecclesiastical career

*ordained priest in 1761 ;
*in the service of the vicar general of the bishopric of Verdun (1762) ;
*Coadjutor bishop of Reims (27 December 1766) ;
*King's Almoner;
*titular bishop of Trajanopolis ;
*archbishop of Reims (27 October 1777) ;
*refusing to agree to the Concordat of 1801, he refused to resign the archbishopric of Reims, and continued to do so until 8 November 1816, after the Bourbon Restoration ;
*Grand Almoner to King Louis XVIII (1808, during the king's exile) ; function still occupied at the time of Lent 1817;
*cardinal (28 July 1817) ;
*archbishop of Paris (1 October 1817, but only installed in 1819).

Political career

*Clergy député at the Estates-General of 1789
*Louis XVIII's representative in Poland (1803)
*pair de France (1815)
*main architect of the Concordat of 11 June 1817.

Exiles

Emigrating in 1790, after the Civil Constitution of the Clergy, he stayed successively in Aix-la-Chapelle, Weimar and Brunswick. He had the abbot Nicolas Baronnet (1744-1820), vicar of Cernay-en-Dormois (Marne), as his secretary during this time. Returning to France upon the first Restoration, he followed Louis XVIII back into exile during the Hundred Days in 1815.

Distinctions

*Commander of the Order of the Holy Spirit

Portraits

*Jacques Wilbault, "Alexandre Angélique de Talleyrand-Périgord", Cabinet des Estampes, Paris
*Louis Pierre Deseine, " Portrait de monseigneur de Talleyrand Périgord (Alexandre Angélique) archevêque et pair de France", c.1822, bust, Paris, Musée du Louvre
*Jean-Pierre Franque, "Alexandre Angélique de Talleyrand-Périgord, cardinal", oil on canvas, after the cardinal's death, Musée du château de Versailles
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