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Jean Auguste de Chastenet de Puységur
Jean
Auguste
de
Chastenet de
Puységur
was a
French
bishop
.
He was named
bishop of Saint-Omer
on
29 June
1775
, then
bishop of Carcassonne
in 1778. In
1788
, he became
archbishop of Bourges
.
A
deputy
to
Estates-General of 1789
, on the
French Revolution
he
emigrated
to
Wolfenbüttel
, where he
lived
with the
archbishop of Rheims
,
Talleyrand-Périgord
. The
1801 Concordat
between
France
and
the Pope
forced him to
resign
, but allowed him to return to
Rabastens
, where he then lived until his
death
.