Christophe de Beaumont


Christophe de Beaumont

Archbishop of Paris, Duke of Saint-Cloud,
Peer of France
Portrait of Christophe de Beaumont
ChurchRoman Catholic Church
ArchdioceseParis
SeeNotre-Dame de Paris
Installed19 September 1746
Term ended12 December 1781
PredecessorJacques Bonne-Gigault de Bellefonds
SuccessorAntoine-Eléonore-Léon Le Clerc de Juigné
Other post(s)Archbishop of Vienne
Bishop of Bayonne
Orders
Ordination19 June 1734
by François de Crussol d'Uzès
Consecration24 December 1741
by Louis-Jacques Chapt de Rastignac
Personal details
Born(1703-07-26)26 July 1703
Died12 December 1781(1781-12-12) (aged 78)
Paris, France
NationalityFrench
Coat of armsChristophe de Beaumont's coat of arms

Christophe de Beaumont du Repaire (26 July 1703 – 12 December 1781) was a French cleric who belonged to a cadet branch of the Les Adrets and Saint-Quentin branches of the illustrious Dauphin family of Beaumont. He became Bishop of Bayonne in 1741, then Archbishop of Vienne in 1745, and in 1746, at the age of forty-three, Archbishop of Paris.[1] An austere man, with no wish for glory, he had to be summoned three times by Louis XV before he would leave his diocese of Vienne and move to Paris.[2]

  1. ^ Chisholm 1911.
  2. ^ Saint-Amand, Imbert de (1900). The Court of Louis XV. Femmes de Versailles.English. Translated by Elizabeth Gilbert Martin. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. p. 196.