Jean Dours
Jean Pierre Jacques Armand Cicile Dours , born with Alzonne, small village of the Languedoc (Aude), the February 4th 1809, dead the December 12th 1877, at the 69 years age.
Entered the ecclesiastical state, it occupied successively and with distinction the posts of professor of grammar to the college of Aire, professor of history and eloquence crowned with the Large-Seminar of Dax, the main thing of the college of Saint-Sever, headmaster of the college of Laval, vice-chancellor of the Academy of the Puy-de-Dôme, and finally inspector of the Académie of Paris, in residence with Versailles.
Honorary canon in the dioceses of Surface and Dax, of Clermont-Ferrand and Versailles, knight of the Legion of honor, bachelor of arts.
Indicated for évêché of Laval, it was definitively named with the seat of Soissons by imperial decree of the October 15th 1863, was recommended the December 21st and was crowned with Laon the March 13rd 1864 by the cardinal Thomas Gousset.
Mgr Dours occupied the seat of Soissons during nearly 12 years, until the beginning of 1876, time when its health if compromised forced it to take its retirement with Bagnères, with the title of canon of Saint-Denis.
Mgr Dours was the 95e bishop of Soissons; it carried for weapons: mouths with the money cross charged with three sand nails with the crown of spines in of the same saltire, and for currency: Jesum Christum and hunc crucifixum.
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