CAULET, FRANÇOIS. - Born in Toulouse on 19 May 1610, died in Pamiers on 7 August 1680. After completing his studies at the College of La Flèche, he collaborated with the Abbé Olier in the founding of the seminary of Vaugirard and the Company of St-Sulpice. In 1644, Louis XIV, at the suggestion of St Vincent de Paul, appointed him Bishop of Pamiers. Free from all ambition, he displayed exceptional zeal in seeking the reform of the clergy and the spiritual uplift of his diocese, facing persistent opposition. He adhered, however, to the Jansenist movement, and his conduct regarding the formulary of Alexander VII was not entirely clear, although he advised his clergy to subscribe to it (his *Mandement sur la signature du formulaire*, of 1665, was placed on the Index [decree of 5 March 1667]). Firm, on the other hand, was his stance against the pretension of Louis XIV to extend to all French bishops the rights of regalia, encouraged and strongly supported by several letters from Pope Innocent XI, the last of which, containing a warm eulogy of his work, reached France shortly after his death.
CAULET, FRANÇOIS
BIBL.: E. Besoigne, *Vie de quatre évêques engagés dans la cause de Port-Royal*, II, Cologne 1756, pp. 114-318; E. Doublet, *Un prélat janséniste*, Paris 1895; id., *Les protestants à Pamiers*, Toulouse 1895, passim; id., *F. C.*, Foix 1896; id., *Un diocèse pyrénéen sous Louis XIV*, Toulouse 1896; id., *C. évêque de Pamiers et les Jésuites*, 1897; L. Bertrand, *Histoire de la Compagnie de St. Sulpice*, Paris 1900.