Louis Marie Antoine vicomte de Noailles

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de Noailles, Louis Antoine (1651–1729), Abp. of Paris from 1695, created a cardinal in 1700. He was a devoted pastor and an ardent reformer of clerical discipline. His repeated commendations in 1695 and 1699 of P. Quesnel's Réflexions morales caused him to be suspected of Jansenism. A staunch Gallican, he defended the rights of the French bishops in the Assemblies of the Clergy in 1700, 1704, and 1713, and thereby incurred the antagonism of the Ultramontanes. In 1718 he appealed against the bull ‘Unigenitus’; though forced to sign an acceptance of it in 1728, he had prepared a recantation which was circulated later.

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Louis Marie Antoine Noailles, vicomte de , 1756–1804, French general and statesman. During the American Revolution he fought with the marquis de Lafayette at Yorktown. As a member of the States-General he proposed (Aug. 4, 1789) the abolition of all titles and feudal privileges. When the French Revolution grew more radical, he emigrated to the United States. He later accepted a command under the vicomte de Rochambeau in Santo Domingo and was mortally wounded in battle.

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