Louis-Antoine de Noailles

Louis -Antoine de Noailles ( born May 27, 1651 Cros -de- Monvert, Cantal, † May 4, 1729 in Paris) was Cardinal (1700) and since 1695 archbishop of Paris.

Noailles received his doctorate in theology at the Sorbonne ( March 14, 1676 ). Three years later he was appointed bishop of Cahors, where he was active but only briefly. Already in 1680 he was appointed by Pope Innocent XI. offset to the governance of the diocese of Châlons -sur- Marne. Not least because of family connections - Louis -Antoine was the brother of the Marshal Anne -Jules de Noailles - he was appointed by King Louis XIV to the Archbishop of Paris and the Duke of Saint-Cloud on August 19, 1695. 1700 Noailles was by Pope Innocent XII. appointed cardinal.

Noailles was characterized by a liberal religious point of view. When he turned his protection the Jansenist Quesnel and participated in the new edition of the New Testament, he was persecuted by the Jesuits. However, his attitude towards Jansenism is ambiguous: on the one hand a close, he was even accused to the other, he publicly condemned their demands. His attitude to 1713 by Pope Clement XI. against him erwirkten bull Unigenitus was contradictory. Until 1728, he opposed this bull, and then reverses his stance shortly before his death.

Although he had studied with François Fénelon and was friends with him, Noailles later belonged to the bishops, the Fenelon's Maxims of the Saints condemned and so contributed to the end of Fenelon's theological career.

About Noailles is said that he collected money for the hungry and has a large part of its heritage spent lady for Redekoration Notre.

Noailles died on 4 May 1729th His successor as Archbishop of Paris was Charles Gaspard Guillaume de Ventimiglia du Luc.