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Louis-Antoine de Noailles

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May 27, 1651, Château de Tessières, near Aurillac, France
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May 4, 1729, Paris (aged 77)
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Louis-Antoine de Noailles (born May 27, 1651, Château de Tessières, near Aurillac, France—died May 4, 1729, Paris) was a cardinal and archbishop of Paris who, with his brother, the second duc de Noailles, made the name Noailles one of the most honoured in France. Educated in Paris and receiving a doctorate in theology from the Sorbonne, he became successively bishop of Cahors (1679), bishop of Châlons (1680–95), and archbishop of Paris (from 1695); he was named cardinal in 1700. He was involved in the controversies over Jansenism, mildly approving the Jansenism of Pasquier Quesnel’s Reflexions morales and, by 1713, demonstrating ...(100 of 127 words)

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