Antoine Eustace d\' Osmond

Mgr Antoine Eustace d' Osmond , count of the Empire, is a French prelate born with Saint Domingue the February 6th 1754 and died in Nancy the September 27th 1823.

Wire of Louis Eustace d' Osmond (1718 - 1782), 3rd marquis d' Osmond, and of his wife, Marie Louise de Pardieu de Maucomble, Antoine Eustace d' Osmond, born with Holy Domingue, was sent in France where he was entrusted to his uncle, Charles Antoine Gabriel d' Osmond (1723 - 1793), bishop of Comminges. It made good studies and entered the orders. According to Dufort de Cheverny, “it large, beautiful, was well made and full with spirit”.

It was named general vicar of the archdiocese of Toulouse in 1777 near M {{gr.}} of Loménie de Brienne. The July 15th 1785, it was named bishop of Comminges to replace his/her uncle, resigner.

Emigrated under the Revolution, he resigned of London on September 26th 1801 but returned to France in February 1802. He was named certificated bishop of Nancy in 1805 and First chaplain of Louis Bonaparte, king de Hollande, and of the queen Hortense. He was then named archbishop of Florence in May 1808 but, following the example other bishops named in this promotion, did not go in its archdiocese fault of having received the canonical nomination of the Pape.

He was knight of the orders of Mister, ecclesiastical commander of the hospital orders and plain soldiers of Notre-Dame of the Carmel Mount and Saint-Lazare of Jerusalem. Under the Empire, it was made baron of the Empire with possible reversion to its nephew by letters patent of May 1808, then count d' Osmond and of the Empire by letters patent of February 16th 1810.

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