Jean-Sifrein Maury was a French cardinal, archbishop of Paris, and former bishop of Montefiascone.
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32 Facts About Jean-Sifrein Maury
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Jean-Sifrein Maury spent a year at the minor seminary of Sainte-Garde, and then transferred to the major seminary of St Charles, which was run by the Sulpician fathers.
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Jean-Sifrein Maury's acuteness was observed by the priests of the seminary at Avignon, where he was educated.
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Jean-Sifrein Maury was ordained a priest at Sens by Cardinal Paul d'Albert de Luynes in 1767, having been granted a dispensation because he was below the canonical minimum age.
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Jean-Sifrein Maury tried his fortune by writing eloges of famous persons, then a favorite practice, beginning with King Stanislaus of Poland in 1766 and Charles V in 1767.
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Jean-Sifrein Maury was granted the Abbey of La Frenade in the diocese of Saintes in commendam.
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In 1785 Abbe Jean-Sifrein Maury was elected to the Academie francaise, successor to the chair formerly occupied by Lefranc de Pompignan.
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Jean-Sifrein Maury's morals were as loose as those of his great rival Mirabeau, but he was famed in Paris for his wit and gaiety.
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Jean-Sifrein Maury was elected a member of the Estates-General of 1789 by the clergy of the bailliage of Peronne, proving from the first to be the most able and persevering defender of the ancien regime.
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Jean-Sifrein Maury often got the better of his principal antagonist, Mirabeau, but he did not win a single vote.
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Jean-Sifrein Maury fell back, step by step, with his face to the foe, making the conquerors pay dearly for their victory.
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Jean-Sifrein Maury held a diocesan synod for the clergy, and made judicious use of the exiled French clergy, improving the teaching at the diocesan seminary by appointing two doctors of the Sorbonne.
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Jean-Sifrein Maury attempted to seek refuge in Florence, but the Duke was under French pressure to expel him.
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Jean-Sifrein Maury, who was in Venice, had already been commissioned by Louis XVIII to work for the assembling of a conclave.
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Jean-Sifrein Maury was the only one of the five French cardinals at the conclave in Venice.
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Jean-Sifrein Maury had no party of supporters, and he was generally looked askance at because he was French.
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On 21 April 1800, the exiled Louis XVIII wrote to Jean-Sifrein Maury, thanking him for his services at the conclave just concluded, and enclosing the documents which named Jean-Sifrein Maury as his Minister before the Holy See.
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Thereafter Jean-Sifrein Maury made regular trips to Rome, on behalf of the affairs of Louis XVIII, but to report to Pius about his correspondence and information gathering about the French bishops who had refused the oath to the Civil Constitution of the Clergy and gone into exile.
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In 1804, having discovered the direction of papal policy and feeling the estrangement with Louis XVIII, Cardinal Jean-Sifrein Maury began to prepare his return to France by a well-turned letter to Napoleon, congratulating him on restoring religion to France once more.
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Jean-Sifrein Maury suggested to the Chapter of the cathedral of Paris that they elect him Administrator capitular of the diocese.
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Jean-Sifrein Maury never called himself Archbishop of Paris, only archbishop-designate and Capitular Administrator of the diocese during the Sede vacante.
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On 5 November 1810, he was ordered by the pope to cease his activities in the diocese of Paris, and threatened him with ecclesiastical censures if he persisted, but Jean-Sifrein Maury refused, claiming that the papal letter was a forgery.
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Jean-Sifrein Maury was ordered to leave France by the Comte d'Artois, Lieutenant-General of the Realm.
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Pacca took advantage of the moment and ordered Jean-Sifrein Maury imprisoned in the Castel Sant'Angelo, on 12 May 1815, for his disobedience to the papal orders.
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Jean-Sifrein Maury was held for three months and fourteen days, until Consalvi returned from Vienna and ordered him released.
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Jean-Sifrein Maury was allowed to take up residence in the novice house of the Lazarist fathers at San Silvestro al Quirinale.
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Jean-Sifrein Maury's name was deliberately left off the list of members of the Academie francaise.
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Jean-Sifrein Maury died on 10 May 1817, primarily from a disease contracted in prison, thought to have been scurvy.
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Jean-Sifrein Maury sacrificed much to personal ambition, yet remained publicly unremembered by Louis XVIII as a courageous supporter of Louis XVI and by the papacy as the one defender of the Church during the States-General.
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