Jean-François Marquis-Ducastel

Jean-François Marquis-Ducastel (° October 28th 1739 Versailles - † January 23rd 1829 Maroilles cheese-the-Braults); priest, priest of Holy-Suzanne (Mayenne) then of Maroilles cheese-the-Braults, canon of the Mans, appointed Maine at the General meeting of the general information of Turns in 1787, proscribed for the revolutionary period.

Biography

Family

Jean-François Marquis of the Manor house or Ducastel, elder of a family of ten children, is the son of Jean Marquis , officer attached to the House of the Dolphin, and Julienne Catherine Souverain (° September 7th 1708 Belle-Île-en-Mer - † October 22nd 1792) which he had married the February 18th 1738.

The Marquis family was for a long time with the service of the royal family. A Marquis , originating in the Béarn, followed Henri de Navarre to the court of France, when it came there in 1572 to marry Marguerite de Valois. One of its grandsons was turned over in Gascogne, and it is of this branch of the family that was born Jean Marquis (° December 27th 1703 Saint-Gaudens - † September 11th 1771), wire of François Marquis and Dominge Sourin . It came to Paris in 1726; and of the members of his family, who had remained at the Court, made it enter to the Gobelet of the king , one of the services of mouth. In 1735, to the formation of the House of the Dolphin , father of Louis XVI, when this prince passed to the men, it entered to the Goblet-Dolphin , of which he was the chief. Jean Marquis is the father of Jean-François and Jacques-Marie Marquis of the Manor house or Ducastel.

The title of the Manor house was carried in theory by the juniors. In fact, Jean-François Marquis signs “ " Marquis" , graduated in theology of Paris, rural Senior of Évron, priest of the city and parish of Holy-Suzanne” majority of the parochial acts, but " Marquis Of Castel" that of the marriage of his/her brother, whom it celebrates with Holy-Suzanne in 1784. The History retained Marquis-Ducastel .

This brother, Jacques-Marie Marquis (° December 10th 1745 Versailles - † 1832), rider, sior of the Manor house , former officer of the house of the king, made at Holy-Suzanne in 1781, married the September 13rd 1784 with Julie-Renee Besognard of Bigottière of Ronceray , was Maire of Holy-Suzanne of 1815 with 1818.

Religious studies

Living in its childhood with Belle-Ile-en-mer, it makes its studies with the college of the Jésuites of Vannes and returns, already tonsure, with Versailles the May 27th 1756 by Mgr of Bertin bishop of Valves, makes a first year of theology to Lisieux, to finish in 1760 with the Séminaire of Saint-Louis in Paris its ecclesiastical studies started at the Sulpiciens.

Sub-deacon in 1762, assigning its sacerdotal title on a vault of the cathedral of Mâcon, Master be arts in the university of Paris, then stock exchange with the Collège of Cardinal-Lemoine, it was selected to take care of the temporal administration of the parish by the priest of the St. Lawrence, in Paris, where there remained two years vicar. Priest the September 22nd 1764.

Seeing its hopes of promotion reduced following the death of the Dolphin Louis de France the December 20th 1765, it passes in the Diocèse of Valves in April 1766, he becomes at once vice-promoter of the Officialité, and accompanies his bishop, Mgr Charles-Jean Ier de Bertin, at the assembly of the clergy in 1770.

A friend of its family, the abbot Joseph-Hyacinthe Mauduit of Plessis , laid off in theology of the university of Paris, official of the diocese and canon of the cathedral of Valves, and since 1768 abbot commendataire of the Abbey Notre-Dame d' Évron, presents it in 1771 to the Holy-Suzanne cure of , where it arrives the June 25th 1771, lodged initially by Mrs. Lelong. This one dies some time afterwards, in the same way (in November 1771) that the abbot Joseph-Hyacinthe Mauduit of Plessis . Its successor, the abbot Jean-Baptiste of Plessis d' Argentré, later bishop of Sées, will propose a less favorable lease to him which will reduce of a blow by 800 Fr its incomes.

The restorer of the Holy-Suzanne church and the presbytery of

In 1771, at the time when Jean-François Marquis-Ducastel takes possession of the cure, Holy-Suzanne was still one of the most important cities of the Maine. It went of par with Saint-Calais, Beaumont-the-Viscount, Fresnay and Mondoubleau, and yielded it, in the administrative organization of this time, only with the Mans, Laval, Mayenne and Mamers.

the presbytery
the church

Jean-François Marquis-Ducastel was named, during the vacancy of the seat, rural senior of Évron and was continued by Mgr of Gonssans in his functions, of which he discharged with a remarkable zeal. But its bishop wanted to bring it closer to him and, despite everything the bonds which attached it to Holy-Suzanne, whose inhabitants had named it to advise with the Town hall as of 1772 and where his/her brother, Jacques-Marie Marquis , officer of the house of the king, had been fixed by his marriage in 1784, it accepted the cure of Maroilles cheese-the-Braults and, almost at the same time, the deanery of Sonnois.

Deputy with the Parliament of Maine

It is in this capacity as senior of Sonnois that he was elected, the August 11th 1787, like representative of the clergy to the provincial Parliament of the Maine, where he was in charge of a report/ratio on the weapons of the province, and, the next on November 12th, at the joined together general meeting with Tours, where, member of the 4th office, he supported a remarkable report/ratio on the state of manufactures in the Généralité of Tours.

It assisted, on April 16th 1788, with the Synode diocesan of which it signed, almost only, the statutes without restriction. The same balanced spirit made it distinguish at the tumultuous assembly from the clergy joined together with the Mans on March 16th 1789; he was the principal promoter of the protest signed by 70 members against the register of grievances of the clergy of Maine.

Its role of chronicler during the revolution

Relieved of its cure for refusal of pure and simple oath, there still remained some time in its parish, from where the installation of the following priest Jean-Baptiste Cornuau , drove out it (May 1792). It then withdrew in his brother Holy-Suzanne Jacques-Marie Marquis with , in a small house of the district of Taconnière , where it lived hidden, but consigning the continuation of the events in notes extremely interesting for the history of this country.

Returned in Marolles in May 1795, it repaired the ruins which the Revolution had produced there, several times obliged to still hide. Chief of the mission of Mamers, it, exerted a profitable ministry near the sworn in priests, and refused to be the vicar-general of a certificated bishop to remain in his cure, where it died the January 23rd 1829, honorary canon of the Mans since 1821. Its coprs, initially buried in the cemetery, was transferred the August 3rd 1847 in the church, where a long epitaph points out its merits.

Its portrait in bust was lithographed by Férat . There exists a table the representative with the presbytery of Maroilles cheese-the-Braults.

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