Hardouin de Péréfixe de Beaumont
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Paris
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) was a French historian and clergyman. He was bishop of Rodez, then archbishop of Paris
Archbishop of Paris
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Paris is one of twenty-three archdioceses of the Roman Catholic Church in France. The original diocese is traditionally thought to have been created in the 3rd century by St. Denis and corresponded with the Civitas Parisiorum; it was elevated to an archdiocese on...
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Born at Beaumont, Vienne
Beaumont, Vienne
Beaumont is a commune in the Vienne department in the Poitou-Charentes region in western France....
into a family of Neapolitan
Naples
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origin, he was the son of a maître d'hotel
Maître d'hôtel
The maître d’hôtel in the original French language is literally the "master of the hotel". In a suitably staffed restaurant or hotel, it is the person in charge of assigning customers to tables and dividing the dining area into areas of responsibility for the various servers on duty. The plural...
to Richelieu. He studied at the Université de Poitiers and in Paris, receiving his doctorate at the Sorbonne
Sorbonne
The Sorbonne is an edifice of the Latin Quarter, in Paris, France, which has been the historical house of the former University of Paris...
. In 1644, he became preceptor
Preceptor
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to Louis XIV, which also made him his confessor
Confessor
-Confessor of the Faith:Its oldest use is to indicate a saint who has suffered persecution and torture for the faith, but not to the point of death. The term is still used in this way in the East. In Latin Christianity it has come to signify any saint, as well as those who have been declared...
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He died at Paris in 1671.