Barons of the First French Empire - Louis Belmas, Joseph-Marie Nielly, Jean-Pierre Travot, Jzef Chopicki, Jan Kozietulski (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Louis Belmas, Joseph-Marie Nielly, Jean-Pierre Travot, Jzef Chopicki, Jan Kozietulski, Jean-Franois de Bourgoing, Charles Ambroise de Caffarelli Du Falga, Jean-Baptiste de Caffarelli Du Falga, Dezydery Chapowski, Louis Costaz, Claude Franois Duprs, Bertrand Bessires, Benot Costaz. Excerpt: Louis Belmas (11 August 1757 - Montral, Aude - 21 July 1841) was a French churchman and bishop. Louis was born to a publicly-esteemed businessman in Languedoc and his wife, both of whom died within six weeks of each other when Louis was aged only 4 1/2. They left behind Louis, seven other children and a very limited fortune. Louis was adopted by his godfather, who took him into his household and took charge of his education. Louis was first sent to the schools in his small birthplace and soon began studying Latin at the collge in Carcassonne. There, from his 'sixime' year to his 'rhtorique' year at the collge de l'Esquille at Toulouse, he enjoyed brilliant success, nearly always coming first in the public exams. At the end of 1772 he received the tonsure from Armand Bazin de Bezons, bishop of Carcassonne, who two years later gave Belmas a bursary to attend the Toulouse seminary, run by Oratorian priests, where Belmas studied philosophy and theology with distinction and from which he graduated bachelor. He then returned to Carcassonne and was ordained priest on 22 December 1781. He was then made vicar of Saint-Michel de Carcassonne, a role he successfully filled until 1782, when he became a prebendary at the collegial church of Saint-Vincent de Montral and was summoned by bishop M. Chastenet de Puysgur to head the seminary at Carcassonne. In 1786, de Puysgur made him promoter general of the diocese and (on Belmas's request) granted him the... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=22400260