Also known as:
Louis Antoine de Noailles;
French: Cardinal de Noailles, Louis-Antoine de Noailles
NOAILLES, LOUIS-ANTOINE. - Cardinal, b. at Noailles on 27 May 1651, d. at Paris on 4 May 1729. Bishop of Cahors from 1679 and of Châlons-sur-Marne from 1680, in 1682 he attended the Assembly of the Clergy at which the four articles were adopted. Having become Archbishop of Paris on 19 Aug. 1695, and cardinal on 21 June 1700, he took part in the religious disputes of that time, drawing upon himself, because of his irresolute character, accusations of weakness, heresy and betrayal from all parties.
Favorable to Jansenism, he did not dare to support it for long, and was induced to take severe measures against it. He sought to oppose the bull Vineam Domini, hostile to the Jansenists, wrote in defense of Quesnel and against the bull Unigenitus (among other things, the Instruction pastorale du 14 janvier 1719 au clergé de son diocèse sur la constitution Unigenitus, which was condemned by the Holy Office on 3 Aug. 1719), supported Bossuet and was an enemy of the so-called laxism of the Jesuits; nevertheless he was severe with the nuns of Port-Royal, even permitting the destruction of their convent, and ended by repenting of his opposition to the Unigenitus and to the other condemnations of Jansenism. These vacillations made historians severe toward him.
Bibliography6 worksE. De Barthélemy, Le cardinal de N. évêque de Châlons, archevêque de Paris, d'après sa correspondance inédite, Paris 1886; M. Fossayeux, in
BIBL.: E. De Barthélemy, Le cardinal de N. évêque de Châlons, archevêque de Paris, d'après sa correspondance inédite, Paris 1886; M. Fossayeux, in Revue hist., 114 (1913), p. 261 ff., 115 (1914), pp. 34-54; Ch. Urbain-E. Levesque, Les dernières années de Bossuet, Paris 1920, passim; J. Carreyre, Le fanatisme durant la Régence, Louvain 1920-34, passim; Pastor XIV and XV, see index; J.-F. Thomas, La querelle de l'Unigenitus, Paris 1950, passim.
Fonzi, Fausto. “Noailles, louis-antoine.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VIII, col. 1903. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952. https://azioneromana.com/article/noailles-louis-antoine.
MLA
Fonzi, Fausto. “Noailles, louis-antoine.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VIII, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952, col. 1903. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/noailles-louis-antoine.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec8_noailles_louis_antoine,
author = {Fonzi, Fausto},
title = {Noailles, louis-antoine},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {VIII},
pages = {1903},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1952},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/noailles-louis-antoine}
}
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