Charles Constance César Joseph Matthieu d'Agoult
Charles Constance César Joseph Matthieu d'Agoult de Bonneval (1747/1749, Grenoble – 1824, Paris), also known as Charles-César-Louis Loup Constance Joseph Mathieu d’Agoult de Bonneval, was a French Roman Catholic bishop, and after his resignation of his diocese a political writer.
His eldest brother, François-Edouard-Augustin-Venceslas-Hippolyte, Marquis d'Agoult, was Maréchal-de-Camp in the royal army. Another brother, Antoine-Jean, Vicomte d'Agoult, held the rank of Mestre-de-camp, and was a Commander in the Order of Saint Lazare. Another brother, Louis-Annibale, was also a Maréchal-de-Camp.[1]
Career
Agoult studied at the Seminary of St. Sulpice at Paris. He was Vicar-General of the diocese of Soissons, and then Vicar-General of Cardinal de Rouchefoucauld at Rouen. He was named Bishop of Pamiers by King Louis XVI of France on 28 January 1787, and received approval from Pope Pius VI on 23 April 1787.[2] He was consecrated a bishop on 13 May 1787.
In 1789 Agoult sought election to the Estates General, but he was refused by his own clergy on 4 April. He left Pamiers.[3]
During the French Revolution he helped prepare the abortive escape train for Louis XVI at Vincennes, but then emigrated, and settled in Coblentz in the faction of the Comte d'Artois. It is said that he had been a lover of Mme. de Matignon, and that he intrigued to be Garde de Scaux or Chancellor in a future royal administration.[4] But he returned to France in 1801, having resigned his bishopric as required by Pope Pius VII, though only after some attempt at negotiating better terms.[5]
Works
- Conversation avec E. Burke, sur l'interêt des puissances de l'Europe (Paris, 1814)
- Projet d'une banque nationale (Paris, 1815)
- Lettre à un Jacobin, ou réflexions politiques sur la constitution d'Angleterre et la charte royale (Paris, 1815)
- Eclaircissement sur le projet d'une banque nationale (Paris, 1816)
Notes and References
- ^ Jean Baptiste Pierre Jullien de Courcelles (1826). Histoire généalogique et héraldique des pairs de France, des grands dignitaires de la couronne, des principales familles nobles du royaume, et des Maisons princières de l'Europe, précédée de la généalogie de la Maison de France (in French). Vol. Tome VI. Paris: l'auteur. pp. not paginated continuously.
- ^ Ritzler-Sefrin, p. 91.
- ^ Jules de Lahondès (1884). Annales de Pamiers (in French). Vol. Tome second. Toulouse: E. Privat. p. 429.
- ^ Henri Forneron (1884). Histoire générale des émigrés pendant la révolution française (in French). Vol. 1. E. Plon, Nourrit et cie. pp. 325–326.
- ^ Bernard de Brye (2004). Consciences épiscopales en exil, 1789-1814: à travers la correspondance de Mgr de la Fare, évêque de Nancy (in French). Editions du CERF. pp. 96, 390–391. ISBN 978-2-204-06938-0.
Bibliography
- Jean, Armand (1891). Les évêques et les archevêques de France depuis 1682 jusqu'à 1801 (in French). Paris: A. Picard. p. 389.
- Ritzler, Remigius; Sefrin, Pirminus (1958). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentis aevi VI (1730-1799). Patavii: Messagero di S. Antonio. p. 91, with note 4. Retrieved 2016-07-06.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: A'Becket, John Joseph (1907). "Charles Constance César Joseph Matthieu d'Agoult". In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 1. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
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