Bernardin-François Fouquet

Bernardin François Fouquet (8 January 1705, Rennes – 20 April 1785, Paris) was a French Catholic prelate, Cardinal, abbot and archbishop of Embrun from 1740 to 1767.

Destined to an ecclesiastical career, he studied and became a doctor of theology and received as stipend from the church Combes.

Oblate of St. Benedict in Narbonne in April 1727, he was abbot of the Abbey of St. Peter and St. Paul de Caunes from the 27th of the same month.

He was dedicated on 8 January 1741 by Gilbert Gaspard de Montmorin Saint-Hérem, Bishop-Comte of Langres and Cardinal Étienne-René Gesvres Potier, Bishop of Beauvais-Comte.

After twenty five years of episcopate without highlight except his piety, his health had "altered because of the climate of the Alps", he resigned his archbishopric on 17 April 1767, after a bequeath from 3000 pounds to the Ladies hospital in Grenoble.