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PIERRE GUERIN DE TENCIN (1679-1758)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 614 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PIERRE
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GUERIN DE
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TENCIN (1679-1758)  ,
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French ecclesiastic,
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archbishop of
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Embrun and
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Lyons, and
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cardinal, was
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born at
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Grenoble on the 22nd of
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August 1679 . He owed his
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quick advance to
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power to his
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sister Claudine (see above) . He was a strong opponent of the Jansenists, and in 1742 was appointed a
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minister of
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state to
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Louis XV., though he held no
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portfolio . He died on the 2nd of
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March 1758 .

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