Yves-Alexandre de Marbeuf
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Yves-Alexandre de Marbeuf (Rennes, 1734-Lübeck, 1799) was a French bishop of Autun and archbishop of Lyon, and statesman. He was an opponent of the European Enlightenment thinking[1], and of Jansenism[2].
He went into exile after the French Revolution.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Darrin M. McMahon, Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity (2001), p. 56.
- ^ James R. Lehning, Peasant and French: Cultural Contact in Rural France During the Nineteenth Century (1995), p. 171.
