François of Aix of the Chair

François of Aix , lord of the Chair , was born the August 25th 1624 with the castle from Aix in the the Loire close to Saint-Martin-the-Sauveté, and died the January 20th 1709 with Paris. More known under the name of Father Lachaise , this Jésuite was the confessor of the king Louis XIV during 34 years.

First years

Wire of Georges of Aix, lord of the Chair, and Renee of Rochefort, it was, by its maternal ascent, great nephew of the Père Cotton, confessor of Henri IV. He taught with the College of the Trinity of Lyon, held by the Jésuite S. He enriches considerably the médaillier by the college, at the point to become with his death one of richest of Europe. Jacob Spon one of was protected of the Chair.

Confessor of the king

It is in 1675 that it became in its turn Confesseur of the king Louis XIV. He exerted on this one a moderating influence in the fight against the Jansénisme and of many lords tried to approach the king by his intermediary. It also moderated the action of the king at the time of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in October 1685. One suspects that it Maria the king with Madam de Maintenon in 1683, after the death of Marie-Therese of Austria. The Father the Chair did not live Versailles, but the Maison Professes Jesuits close to the church Saint-Paul in Paris.

With his death, the Father the Chair was replaced by the Father Tellier (1643 - 1719), also Jesuit, like confessor of the king.

The Father-Lachaise

The grounds around the country house which it had with the Mount-Louis, near the Paris of then, largely were extended by the generosity of the sovereign . The confessor frequently withdrew himself there, far from the expensive life of the court and the intrigues carried out by the detractors. His/her brother, the Count of the Chair, often gave festivals to it, contributing to the embellishment of the field. That made it possible nearly one century after the death of the Lachaise Father to have an enough vast ground to constitute the first cemetery civil of Paris.

Remained very popular in the middle of the Parisian ones, this name of Father-Lachaise contributed for much to the adoption by the Parisian S of this new cemetery (before called administratively Cimetière of the East ) which they in its beginnings had been sulky for a long time.

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