Claude Marc Antoine d’APCHON, Bishop of DIJON in 1755, Archb - Lot 107

Claude Marc Antoine d’APCHON, Bishop of DIJON in 1755, Archbishop of AUCH (32) in 1776 (Montbrison (42) 1721 – Auch (32) 1783) – Letter A.S. as Archbishop of Auch, written from Auch (Gers) on October 28, 1778, to the Abbé de Piolenc at the Seminary of St. Sulpice in Paris (Address, postmark, and red wax seal bearing his coat of arms). 1 page, in-8°: “I was truly pleased to learn, my dear Cousin, that you have successfully completed your course in philosophy and that you distinguished yourself in it; I hope you will apply yourself with the same diligence to theology, and that you will neglect nothing that may make you useful to Religion and the Church. You are in a very good school for that…”