Dominique de la ROCHEFOUCAULD (Saint-Elpis 1713 - Munster 18 - Lot 84

Dominique de la ROCHEFOUCAULD (Saint-Elpis 1713 - Munster 1800) Cardinal in 1778, Archbishop of ROUEN, Presided over the Clergy Assemblies of 1780 and 1782, Député aux États-Généraux par le Bailliage de ROUEN - Letter A.S. "+ Dominique Arch. de ROUEN" - to Father Gal of the Oratory - ROUEN March 8, 1767 - 2 pages in-8° - "It is only with sorrow, My Reverend Father, that I send you again the DIMISSOIRE of the late M. l'Évêque du MANS, not precisely because the Prelate was dead when it was given to me. I am not unaware that in a pinch I could make use of it; but I believed, and still believe, that it is more decent for Sieur BLANCHARDON to owe his entry into the Ecclesiastical State to his new Bishop. Moreover, a bishop to whom a Dimissory is addressed by name, with the clause "aut abalio de ejus licentia", should not use it unless he performs his ordination himself, or asks a Confrère to do it for him: such is the custom in my Diocese...".