Denis-Luc Frayssinous

Denis- Antoine- Luc comte de Frayssinous ( born May 9, 1765 in Curières, Aveyron, † December 12, 1841 in Saint- Eulalie, Aveyron ) was a French clergyman, politician, orator and Titular Bishop of Hermopolis Maior.

Biography

Frayssinous was Napoleon I minister in Paris, but was not allowed to climb the pulpit as a royalist since 1809. After the Restoration he was 1816 first almoner and court chaplain of Louis XVIII. , Then Titular Bishop of Hermopolis Parva, Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour, Graf and Pair, 1823 Grand Master of the University of Paris, and in 1824 Minister of Education ( ministre des Affaires ecclésiastiques et de l' Instruction publique ).

With Jean -Baptiste de Villèle he lost his portfolio in 1828, but remained in the full enjoyment of the confidence of Charles X and followed the royal family in exile. There he directed until 1838 Gorizia education by Henri d' Artois, the Duke of Bordeaux. He died on December 12, 1842 Saint- Eulalie in Gascony.

He was a member of the Chambre des pairs and in 1822 was elected to the Académie française.

Works

• Les principes de l' église vrais gallicane sur la puissance ecclésiastique, papauté la, les libertés Gallicanes, la promotion of évêques, les trois concordats, et les appels comme d' abus. Paris in 1818, several editions.
• Conférences et discours inédits. Paris 1843.
• Oeuvres oratoires complètes. Edited by Jacques Paul Migne, Paris, 1856.
• M. l' Abbé Migne: Collection intégrale et universelle des orateurs chrétiens. Série 2 contenant les oeuvres oratoires complètes de Frayssinous. Contains all the speeches of Frayssinou.