Christophe de Beaumont
See also: Beaumont
Christophe de Beaumont , religious French, Archbishop of Paris (1703, Castle of Rocque, in Périgord - 1781). It belonged to the famous family from the Dauphine of Beaumont and her branch junior by the Adrets and of Saint-Quentin.
He became bishop of Bayonne in 1741, then archbishop of Vienna in 1743 and finally, in 1746, at the age of forty-three years, archbishop of Paris. One remembers less inexhaustible sound charity than his fight against the Janséniste S: to force them to accept the bubble Unigenitus who condemned their doctrines, it ordered to the priests of its diocese to refuse the discharge with those who would not recognize it and to refuse the religious funeral with those which would have been confessed to a priest Jansenist.
While other bishops supported it, the Parlement of Paris threatened it to confiscate its benefit. The king prohibited to the members of Parliament to involve itself in these questions of a spiritual nature and, as they were obstinated, it banishes them (September 18th 1753), but as the royal room which had replaced the Parliament was shown unable to continue to manage justice correctly, the king was obliged to recall it while the archbishop left in his turn in a honourable exile (August 1754). One tried to make him delegate the powers of his load to a coadjutor but he refused in spite of the proposals more trying that one made him, among which the cardinal's hat.
To this attack against the Jansenists he added another against the philosophers and published of them a letter in form of mandement in which he condemned L' Émile of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. This last answered by its masterly Lettre Mr. de Beaumont (1762), where it supported that the freedom of discussion in the religious questions is in conformity with the religion than the attempt to impose a belief by the force.
The mandements, letters and pastoral instructions of Christophe de Beaumont were published in two volumes in 1780, the year which preceded its death.
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