Jean-François Boyer
| Jean-François Boyer | |
|---|---|
| Diocese | Ancient Diocese of Mirepoix |
| See | Mirepoix, Ariège |
| Elected |
Member, Académie française (1736) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | March 12, 1675 |
| Died | August 20, 1755 (aged 80) |
| Nationality | French |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
Member, Académie française (1736)
Member, French Academy of Sciences (1738)
Member,
Jean-François Boyer (March 12, 1675 in Paris – August 20, 1755 in Versailles), was a French bishop, best known for having been a vehement opponent of Jansenism and the Philosophe school.
Boyer was a preacher, and the bishop of Mirepoix, Ariège from 1730 to 1736. In 1735 he was tutor to Louis, Dauphin of France, and in 1743 he was head chaplain to Maria Josepha of Saxony, Dauphine of France.
In 1736 he was elected a member of the Académie française, in 1738 to the French Academy of Sciences, and in 1741 to the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres.
He had several benefices by Royal appintment. According to Evelyne Lever, the favorite royal biographer, during the Jubilee Year of 1750 Pope Benedict XIV Boyer tried unsuccessfully to break the relationship between the King and the Marquise de Pompadour.
Boyer promulgated the "Statements of Confession" that the faithful must needs sign to show their compliance with Pope Clement XI's Unigenitus Bull, and to be entitled to receive the sacrament. This caused an outcry in Paris.
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