Jean-Baptiste de Latil
| His Eminence Jean-Baptiste de Latil COHS | |
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Cardinal, Archbishop of Reims, Peer of France | |
 Jean-Baptiste de Latil painted by François Gérard | |
| Church | Roman Catholic Church |
| Archdiocese | Reims |
| See | Notre-Dame de Reims |
| Installed | 12 July 1824 |
| Term ended | 1 December 1839 |
| Predecessor | Jean-Charles de Coucy |
| Successor | Thomas-Marie-Joseph Gousset |
| Other posts | Bishop of Chartres |
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| Born |
6 March 1761 Île Sainte-Marguerite, France |
| Died |
1 December 1839 (aged 78) Gémenos, Provence, France |
| Nationality | French |
Jean-Baptiste Marie Antoine de Latil, count then duke of Latil, Peer of France, French ecclesiastic. He is the last to have crowned a King of France in the person of Charles X in 1825.
Biography
Son of Antoine de Latil and Gabrielle Thérèse de Magny, he was born on Île Sainte-Marguerite on March 6, 1761. Ordained a priest in 1774, he was a priest in Saint-Sulpice Parish in Paris, he refused to take an oath to the Civil Constitution of the Clergy. Imprisoned, he then went to Düsseldorf and entered the service of Charles Philippe, Count of Artois; he was appointed bishop in partibus Amiclée March 8, 1816 and ordered April 7, 1816, then named bishop of Chartres August 8, 1817. Archbishop of Rheims April 6, 1824. He sired King Charles X May 29, 1825. He became the Peer of France on October 31, 1822 and was appointed Knight Commander of the Holy Spirit on May 12, 1825. He was created cardinal at the Consistory of March 13, 1826, with the title of Cardinal Priest of Saint Sixtus. He follows Charles X in his new exile of 1830.
He died in Gémenos (Bouches-du-Rhône) on December 1, 1839. He is buried in the vault of the archbishops in the cathedral of Reims.
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