Charles Louis de Froulay

Charles Louis de Froulay de Tessé (born the September 17th 1687 with the Castle of Montflaux, Saint-Denis-with-Gastines, dead the January 30th 1767), religious évéque French, of Mans of 1724 with 1767.

Biography

Though resulting from a famous family (the Family of Froulay), and close relative of the marshal of Tessé, it is tonsure in 1700. It becomes in 1708, Chanoine count of Lyon and priest; in May 1715, adviser At chaplain of the king in July 1715, general vicar of the bishop of Toulouse, Rene de Beauveau and provided with the Abbey of the Saint-Maur-on-Loire, the January 8th 1721. The February 25th 1724, it is crowned bishop of Mans in the Chapelle of the Noviciate of the Jesuits to Paris by Armand Gaston Maximilien de Rohan. In February 1725, it was made first chaplain of the Queen; the king gave him in 1728 the Abbaye of the Seam.

He announced by his administration in this vast diocese. The quarrels of the Jansénisme agitated its clergy. The chapter had rejected the bubble. Froulay could determine its priests to accept this famous bubble, not like regulates faith, but like a simple ordinance of discipline, to avoid the schism by preserving the unit.

The Maine owes in Froulay several important establishments, it organized a college-seminar in the small town of Domfront, founded an old people's home for the poor and crippled priests, and employed a considerable sum with the construction of a Hôtel-Dieu. Two cemeteries, placed in the districts of Mans, had maintained there for several centuries the hearths pestilential diseases: it hastened to remove them.

When in 1758 and 1759, the Maine tested, like the Anjou and the Touraine, a great food shortage, caused by the export of the grains of 1756 and by the bad harvest of the following years, Froulay ordered one searched general which produced 74.000 francs, and secured from the king a loan of 50.000 francs. With these two naps one bought 25.000 quintals of wheat and rye, which were transported by water of Nantes until Mans. An office of charity, organized under its auspices, opened workshops of work, establishes economic soups and could provide to the needs for the ten thousand poor which the city contained.

Publications

  1. a Mandement bulky against the Treated English Ordinations of the father Courayer, 1727, in-4°;
  2. synodal Ordinances of the diocese of Mans,… Paris: J.B. Coignard, 1747, in-12;
  3. Breviarium Cenomanense... D.D. Caroli Ludovici de Froullay… auctoritate editum… Paris: J.B. Coignard, 1748, 4 vol. in-12.

The abbot the Tale, canon of the church of Mans pronounced his funeral oration, 1767, 28 pages in-8°.

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