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His Eminence

Emmanuel Théodose
Portrait by Hyacinthe Rigaud
SeeOstia-Velletri
Appointed15 December 1700
Term ended2 March 1715
PredecessorAlderano Cibo
SuccessorNicolò Acciaioli
Previous post(s)
Orders
Consecration20 November 1689
by Flavio Chigi
Created cardinal5 August 1669
by Clement IX
RankCardinal-Bishop
Personal details
Born
Emmanuel Théodose de La Tour d'Auvergne

(1643-08-26)26 August 1643
Château de Turenne, France
Died2 March 1715(1715-03-02) (aged 71)
Rome
DenominationCatholic
Parents
Coat of armsEmmanuel Théodose's coat of arms

Emmanuel-Théodose de La Tour d'Auvergne, cardinal de Bouillon (24 August 1643 – 2 March 1715, Rome) was a French prelate and diplomat.

Biography

Originally known as the Duc d'Albret,[1] he was the son of Frédéric Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duc de Bouillon and his wife Éléonor de Bergh. He was the nephew of Maréchal de Turenne. As a member of the House of La Tour d'Auvergne, he claimed to be a Foreign Prince.[citation needed]

In 1658, he was appointed a canon of Liège; in 1667 doctor of the Sorbonne. He played some part in Turenne's conversion to Catholicism in 1668 and had an important rôle as intermediary between his uncle and Louis XIV. Created a cardinal in 1669, at the early age of twenty-four, he was provided with several rich benefices. In particular he was made Grand Almoner of France in 1671 and became Supreme Abbot of the Cluniac Order in 1683. On 19 Oct 1689, he was appointed as Cardinal-Bishop of Albano and consecrated on 20 Nov 1689 by Flavio Chigi, Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina, with Giambattista Rubini, Bishop of Vicenza, and Francesco Juste Giusti, Bishop of Nepi e Sutri, serving as co-consecrators.[2]

His brother Godefroy Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne was the next Duke of Bouillon. His oldest sister Élisabeth, married Charles III, Duke of Elbeuf, son of Charles II, Duke of Elbeuf and Catherine Henriette de Bourbon. [citation needed]

Louvois, the powerful minister of Louis XIV, inspired by enmity to the house of Turenne, successfully opposed certain of his demands on the king for the benefit of members of his family, and the cardinal's disappointment vented itself in a bitter satire on his royal master. This was used to effect Bouillon's downfall at court.[citation needed]

He carried out the nuptials between Philippe d'Orléans, Duke of Chartres and Françoise-Marie de Bourbon, Mademoiselle de Blois at Versailles on 18 February 1692. Mademoiselle de Blois was an illegitimate daughter of Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan. Bouillon had previously refused to take part in the marriage of Louise-Françoise de Bourbon, Mademoiselle de Nantes (sister of Mademoiselle de Blois) to the Duke of Bourbon in 1685 and was subsequently exiled then recalled to perform the formal ceremony.[citation needed]

The young Bouillon as a Cardinal
Painting by Giovanni Battista Gaulli

The cardinal then put forth great efforts to obtain the vacant Prince-Bishopric of Liège, but could not overcome the opposition of Louvois, who secured the dignity for Clement Joseph of Bavaria. He eventually regained the royal favour and was sent as ambassador to Rome. While there, Bouillon employed the sculptor Pierre Le Gros to carve the main components of the tomb he planned to erect for his parents at the Abbey of Cluny (the sculptures were finished by 1707 and arrived at Cluny in 1709). Contrary to the wishes of his king, he championed the cause of Fénelon against that of Bossuet and did all he could to prevent the condemnation of Fénelon's Explication des maximes des Saints.[citation needed]

He was recalled to France, but he hesitated to obey the Royal order since he was next in line for the office of Dean of the Sacred College and consequently Bishop of Ostia (his presence at the time of the imminent death of the current Dean was required to secure his succession). The death of the pope and the subsequent conclave further delayed departure and Bouillon's property in France was then seized. When he eventually submitted and returned to France, he was first exiled to his Abbey of Tournus, soon given a little more freedom of movement, but forbidden to enter Paris. This prevented him from defending himself against the monks of Cluny who sought a parliament ruling against Bouillon's rule over them.[1]

With similar motives in mind as for his tomb project in Cluny, i.e. as contributing factors to a grander scheme of establishing his family as sovereign princes, the cardinal employed Étienne Baluze to compose an Histoire généalogique de la maison d'Auvergne (1708, 2 vols. in fol.), partly based on falsifications. After losing his appeal to uphold his rule over the Cluniac monks in 1710, Bouillon wrote a deeply insulting letter to the king and fled to Prince Eugene of Savoy in the Low Countries.[1]

A warrant for his arrest was issued by the Royal Parliament, and his possessions again confiscated. Only now, because of the dynastic pretensions expressed in them, Baluze's Histoire was banned and the building of the tomb at Cluny prevented.[1][3]

Bouillon soon went to take up his residence at Rome, where he spent his last days as a guest of the Jesuits in the Jesuit novitiate at Sant'Andrea al Quirinale, where he was eventually buried.[citation needed]

While bishop, he was the principal consecrator of:[2]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d Gerhard Bissell, Pierre Le Gros 1666–1719, Reading (Si Vede) 1997, pp. p. 46-59 (in German).
  2. ^ a b "Emmanuel-Theódose Cardinal de la Tour d’Auvergne de Bouillon" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved January 4, 2017
  3. ^ The sculptures were never unpacked and stayed in the abbey until the French Revolution. The main parts are now displayed in the Hôtel-Dieu in Cluny. For another detailed account of the intriguing circumstances of this tomb project see also Mary Jackson Harvey, Death and Dynasty in the Bouillon Tomb Commissions, in: Art Bulletin 74, June 1992, pp. 272–296 (like Bissell with extensive further literature).

References

  • De Feller-Pérennès, Biogr. Gener. (Paris, 1834), II, 470.
  • Public Domain Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Cardinal de Bouillon". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
  • Felix Reyssié, Le cardinal de Bouillon (1643–1715), Paris 1899.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

Catholic Church titles
Preceded by
Henri Bertrand de Beuvron
 Abbot of Cluny
1683–1713 		Succeeded by
Henri-Oswald de la Tour d'Auvergne
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