Antoine-Girard de La Bournat (1656,
Clermont - 8 March 1702) was a French cleric and a doctor at the
Sorbonne.
He was put in charge of educating
Louis Alexandre, Count of Toulouse
Louis Alexandre de Bourbon (6 June 1678 – 1 December 1737), a Legitimacy (family law), legitimated prince of the blood royal, was the son of Louis XIV and of his mistress Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan. At the age of five, he ...
by
Louis XIV of France
LouisXIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 16381 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great () or the Sun King (), was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715. His verified reign of 72 years and 110 days is the List of longest-reign ...
. He was already abbot of
Pontlevoy Abbey
Pontlevoy Abbey is a former Benedictine abbey located in the town of Pontlevoy in the Loir-et-Cher department of France.
History
It was founded in fulfillment of a vow in 1034 by Gueldouin or Gelduin de Chaumont, a local knight. It is believed t ...
when he was made
bishop of Toul
The Diocese of Toul was a Roman Catholic diocese seated at Toul in present-day France. It existed from 365 until 1802. From 1048 until 1552 (''de jure'' until 1648), it was also a state of the Holy Roman Empire.
History
The diocese was erect ...
in 1697. He was also made
bishop of Boulogne
The former French Catholic diocese of Boulogne existed from 1567 to the French Revolution. It was created after the diocese of Thérouanne was suppressed because of war damage to the see; effectively this was a renaming. It belonged to the Ar ...
and
bishop of Poitiers
The Metropolitan Archdiocese of Poitiers (Latin: ''Archidioecesis Metropolitae Pictaviensis''; French: ''Archidiocèse Metropolitain de Poitiers'') is a Latin archdiocese of the Catholic Church in France. The archepiscopal see is in the city of ...
, both in 1698.
Sources
*Eugène Van Drival, ''Histoire des évêques de Boulogne'', Boulogne-sur-Mer, 1852
1656 births
1702 deaths
Bishops of Boulogne
Bishops of Toul
Bishops of Poitiers
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