Christophe de Beaumont

Christophe de Beaumont ( born July 26, 1703 Castle in La Roque Saint- Cyprien, † December 12, 1781 in Paris) was a French clergyman. He became in 1741 Bishop of Bayonne, in 1745 Archbishop of Vienne and 1746 Archbishop of Paris.

Life and work

He was the son of François de Beaumont, comte de La Roque and his second wife Anne -Marie de Lostanges, dame de Saint Alvaire (ca. 1667-1747 ). Christophe de Beaumont is known as an opponent of Jansenism and for his disputes with the French Parlement, the him to administer the sacraments because of its arrangement, dying only on production of a Beichtzettels, a total of four times banished. Finally the King is forced in August 1754 by Lettre de cachet to retire in an honorable exile ( house arrest ).

Beaumont unsuccessfully warned against the danger of revolution and in this context was an avowed opponent of Jean -Jacques Rousseau. In a sharp letter, he turned against his in France immediately after the release of confiscated and condemned by the Paris Parlement great educational novel Émile ou De l' éducation ( Emile or on Education ). 1763 Rousseau replied in a brilliantly constructed defense letter (La lettre à Christophe de Beaumont ).