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His Eminence Dominique de La Rochefoucauld COHS
Cardinal, Archbishop of Rouen, Primate of Normandy
Portrait by François-Hubert Drouais
Church	Roman Catholic Church
Archdiocese	Rouen
See	Notre-Dame de Rouen
Installed	2 June 1759
Term ended	23 September 1800
Predecessor	Nicolas II de Saulx-Tavannes
Successor	Étienne Hubert de Cambacérès
Other post(s)	Archbishop of Albi Vicar-General of Bourges
Personal details
Born	(1712-09-26)26 September 1712 Saint-Ilpize, Auvergne, France
Died	23 September 1800(1800-09-23) (aged 87) Prince-Bishopric of Münster, Holy Roman Empire
Nationality	French
Education	Saint-Sulpice Seminary, Paris Seminary of Clermont
Deputy to the Estates General for the First Estate
Constituency	Rouen

Dominique de La Rochefoucauld ( Saint-Ilpize, Haute-Loire, 26 September 1712 – Münster, Germany, 23 September 1800) was a French bishop and cardinal. ^[1]

Life

Before the French Revolution

He was from an impoverished branch of the La Rochefoucauld family. He became archbishop of Albi in 1747, and archbishop of Rouen in 1759.

Under the Revolution

The clergy of Rouen sent him as their deputy to the États généraux of 1789. As President of the chamber of clergy, he refused its union with the Third Estate. He had to submit, given a direct order from Louis XVI. In protest he submitted a list of clerical rights.

He led a fierce opposition to the Constitution, and signed the protest of 12 September 1791. After 10 August 1792 he went into exile, in Germany from 1794.

He joined the Société des amis des noirs.

Notes

Bibliography

• Fisquet, Honoré (1864). La France pontificale (Gallia Christiana): Metropole de Rouen: Rouen (in French). Paris: Etienne Repos. pp. 268–275.
• Loth, Julien (1893). Histoire du cardinal de la Rochefoucauld et du diocèse de Rouen pendant la Révolution (in French). Evreux: l'Eure. p.  743.

External links

• "(20) 2. LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Dominique de (1712-1800)", The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church
• (in French) "Monseigneur de la Rochefoucault – Thérèse Eude (séance du 21 octobre 1992)", Groupe Histoire des Hôpitaux de Rouen