CHRISTOPHE DE BEAUMONT

CHRISTOPHE DE BEAUMONT (1703-1781), archbishop of Paris, born at Périgord," spent his life in persecuting hysterical Jansenists and incredulous non-confessors"; but scrupled to grant, though he fain would have granted, absolution on his deathbed to the dissolute monarch of France, Louis XV.; issued a charge condemnatory of Rousseau's "Émile," which provoked a celebrated letter from Rousseau in reply.