Jean-Baptiste de Latil


Jean-Baptiste de Latil

Cardinal, Archbishop of Reims,
Peer of France
Jean-Baptiste de Latil painted by Joseph Chabord
ChurchRoman Catholic Church
ArchdioceseReims
SeeNotre-Dame de Reims
Installed12 July 1824
Term ended1 December 1839
PredecessorJean-Charles de Coucy
SuccessorThomas-Marie-Joseph Gousset
Other post(s)Cardinal-Priest of San Sisto
Previous post(s)Bishop of Chartres
Personal details
Born(1761-03-06)6 March 1761
Died1 December 1839(1839-12-01) (aged 78)
Gémenos, Provence, France
NationalityFrench
Coat of armsJean-Baptiste de Latil's coat of arms

Jean-Baptiste Marie Antoine de Latil, count then duke of Latil, Peer of France, French ecclesiastic. He is the last to have crowned a King of France in the person of Charles X in 1825. He performed the Coronation of Charles X while Archbishop of Reims, five years before the July Revolution brought down the Bourbon Dynasty.