Pierre IV of Cambout de Coislin

See also: Coislin

Pierre IV of Cambout de Coislin (1637-1706) was the grandson of Pierre Séguier. It had important benefit: abbot of Jumièges, in 1641, of Saint-Victor, in 1643, canon of Paris, first chaplain of the king in 1663. Bishop of Orleans, Large Chaplain of France. He was opposed with urbanity to the dragonades in his diocese.

Dangeau: " the cardinal of Coislin étoit at the court only the least which it could, and always disputes some with the king on top, who was even piqué sometimes; all the remainder of time in its diocese, which it managed with a great vigilance and by quite selected people. It there donnoit all income of évêché, and faisoit besides of great alms, though it lived everywhere extremely honourably. One knew, since his death, that it étoit in great practices of penitence since many years, and that it relevoit only every night, secretly of its people, to request, and it is to what its last disease was allotted. The missionaries of the parish of Versailles seized him at its end and, with a strange cruelty, did not want any to let any more approach its confessor; such is the domination of these people. The king wanted that the priest of Versailles accompanied the body in Orleans, which is an honor which avoit still returned with anybody, and whose its virtue was considered to be worthy. All the diocese was with the high cries, but these regrets were only the beginning of its pains. "

Named by surprise cardinal, Saint-Simon describes it: " this prelate was in a singular veneration. It was a man of average cuts, large, short, piled up, the red and disentangled face, an aquiline nose, beautiful eyes with an air of frankness, begninity, virtue which captivated by seeing it, and which touched well more by knowing it Of évêché sound that it had strong young person, it never touched anything and put the whole income of it every year in good works. "

One of its successors made withdraw the epitaph of the cardinal of Coislin, " because one went there rier God, as with the tomb of a saint . "

Bibliography: Micheline Cuénin, familiar of Louis XIV. The Cardinal of Coislin, Large Chaplain of France, Bishop of Orleans , Orleans, 2007 (283 pages).

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