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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 GUERIN DE TENCIN (1679-1758)  , French ecclesiastic, archbishop of
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Embrun and Lyons, and cardinal, was born at
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Grenoble on the 22nd of August 1679 . He owed his
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quick advance to 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 minister of state to Louis XV., though he held no portfolio . He died on the 2nd of March 1758 .

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