CHARLES VINTIMILLE DU LUC. — Archbishop of Paris, b. 15 Nov. 1655 at Luc (Frégus), d. in Paris on 13 March 1746.
Bishop of Marseille from 21 Jan. 1692, then Archbishop of Aix (14 May 1708), where he distinguished himself by his spirit of sacrifice during a pestilence, he succeeded Cardinal de Noailles in the see of Paris (17 Aug. 1729). Zealous and of moderate tendency, from his first pastoral he urged all to submit to the bull Unigenitus, and disapproved of the appellants. He condemned the Nouvelles ecclésiastiques, a Jansenist review which provoked against him the opposition of the Paris parliament. Against the manifestations of the convulsions at PARADISO (v.), he succeeded in obtaining the closure of the cemetery of S. Medardo (1732) and declared the alleged miracles to be illusory (v. MEDARDO).