Jean Auguste de Chastenet de Puységur
French politician and priest
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| Intro | French politician and priest | |
| Places | France | |
| was | Politician Priest | |
| Work field | Religion Politics | |
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| Religion: | Catholicism | |
| Birth | 11 November 1740, Rabastens, canton of Rabastens, arrondissement of Albi, Tarn | |
| Death | 14 August 1815Rabastens, canton of Rabastens, arrondissement of Albi, Tarn (aged 74 years) |
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Jean Auguste de Chastenet de Puységur (11 November 1740 – 14 August 1815, Rabastens) was a French bishop.
He was named bishop of Saint-Omer on 29 June 1775, then bishop of Carcassonne in 1778. In 1788, he became archbishop of Bourges.
A deputy to Estates-General of 1789, on the French Revolution he emigrated to Wolfenbüttel, where he lived with the archbishop of Rheims, Talleyrand-Périgord. The 1801 Concordat between France and the Pope forced him to resign, but allowed him to return to Rabastens, where he then lived until his death.