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» This article is about the Catholic Cardinal de La Rochefoucauld. For the French noble and writer, his great-nephew, see François de La Rochefoucauld (writer)
François de La Rochefoucauld (
December 8,
1558 –
February 14,
1645) was a French
Cardinal and an "important figure in the French
Counter Reformation church".
Life
He was one of four sons of Charles de La Rochefoucald and Fulvie Pico della Mirandola. After his father died when he was three years old, the family returned to the household of
Queen Caterina de Medici of France.
La Rochefoucauld attended the
Jesuit Collège de Clermont (later renamed Lycée Louis-le-Grand by
Louis XIV) in Paris from
1572-
1579. On
July 29,
1585, he was appointed
bishop of Clermont, though he needed special
Papal dispensation for not meeting all the usual
canonical criteria. He wasn't formally a Jesuit at this time.
He received the red hat of a
Cardinal in 1607, and the title of Cardinal-Priest of San Callisto on
February 1,
1610 at the age of 51, shortly before moving to the
See of Senlis. From September 1618 until February 6, 1632 he was Grand
Almoner of France, and during this period was named papal commissioner for the reform of the old religious orders in France on
April 8,
1622. He was President of the Royal Council from 1622 until his replacement by
Cardinal Armand Richelieu in
1624.
Another long-term appointment was as
abbot of
Sainte-Geneviève between
1619 and
1644. In February of
1619,
Louis XIII appointed de La Rochefoucauld to Sainte-Geneviève in an effort to mitigate the effects of previous
canons. The canons had been lax and Cardinal Rochefoucauld selected Charles Faure to follow out his wishes for reform.
By
1635, La Rochefoucauld had tired of the cardinalate, and perhaps of the politics of the Church at that time, and wished to end his life not as a cardinal but as a simple member of the Jesuits. He communicated his desire to resign the cardinalate and enter the Jesuits to the current General of the Society, Father Muzio Vitelleschi. Vitelleschi obtained the consent of
Cardinal Barberini, but
Pope Urban VIII turned down the request.
La Rochefoucauld remained a cardinal until the end of his life at 86 years of age, on
February 14,
1645, at his old abbey at Sainte-Geneviève. Father Vitelleschi took the cardinal's Jesuit vows on his deathbed. La Rochefoucauld was buried in a Jesuit habit in the chapel of Saint Jean-Baptiste, but his heart was deposited in the church of a Jesuit college. In his testament, the cardinal had left not only his books but also his heart to the Collège de Clermont.
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