Armand de Rohan-Soubise
François-Armand de Rohan, cardinal of Soubise is a French man of the church, born with Paris on February 1st 1717 and dead the June 28th 1756 with Saverne, prince de Rohan-Soubise. Young person one calls it, prince de Tournon then abbot of Ventadour
He is abbot of Saint-Epvre to the diocese of Toul in 1736, abbot-prince de Murbach and of Lure in 1737. He is elected with the French Academy in 1741, coadjutor of Strasbourg one year later then bishop of Ptolémaïde in Palestine four months afterwards. He is named large chaplain of France in 1745 and cardinal in 1747. He becomes prince-archbishop of Strasbourg in 1749 and abbot of Chair-God the same year by demolishing that of Saint-Epvre. He dies in 1756 in Saverne of a phthisis.
Great nephew of its predecessor Armand Gaston Maximilien de Rohan of which it was the Coadjuteur and brother of Charles de Rohan, prince de Soubise, it is elected member of the French Academy on July 15th 1741.
Related articles
- Family of Rohan
- Palate of Rohan of Strasbourg
External bond
- Biographical note of the French Academy
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