Noailles, Louis-Antoine de
Louis-Antoine de Noailles, portrait in Notre-Dame Cathedral, Paris.
Louis-Antoine de Noailles
French cardinal
Louis-Antoine de Noailles (born May 27, 1651, Château de Tessières, near Aurillac, France—died May 4, 1729, Paris) was a cardinal and archbishop of Paris who, with his brother, the second duc de Noailles, made the name Noailles one of the most honoured in France. Educated in Paris and receiving a doctorate in theology from the Sorbonne, he became successively bishop of Cahors (1679), bishop of Châlons (1680–95), and archbishop of Paris (from 1695); he was...