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Armand De Rohan Edit Profile

Catholic priest Grand Almoner of France

Armand de Rohan was a French churchman and politician.

Career

He constructed the Hôtel de Rohan next to the present day Hôtel de Soubise in which his father lived, employing his father"s architect, Pierre-Alexis Delamair. He was made a commander of the Saint-Esprit in 1713.

Membership

Académie française; Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres]

He became bishop of Strasbourg in 1704, Cardinal in 1712 then Grand Almoner of France in 1713 and member of the regency council in 1722. The prince de Rohan was elected a member of the Académie des Inscriptions in 1701 and of the Académie française in 1703.