VINTIMILLE DU LUC, CHARLES. - Archbishop of Paris, b. 15 Nov. 1655 at Luc (Fréjus), d. at Paris on 13 March 1746.
Bishop of Marseilles from 21 Jan. 1692, then archbishop of Aix (14 May 1708), where he distinguished himself by his spirit of self-sacrifice during a plague, he succeeded Card. de Noailles in the Parisian see (17 Aug. 1729). Zealous and of moderate tendency, from his very first pastoral letter he exhorted all to submit to the bull Unigenitus, and disapproved of the appellants. He condemned the Nouvelles ecclésiastiques, a Jansenist journal, thereby arousing against himself the opposition of the Paris parliament. Against the demonstrations of the convulsionaries at the tomb of the deacon Paris (v) he succeeded in obtaining the closure of the cemetery of S. Medardo (1732) and declared the alleged miracles illusory (v. MEDARDO).