The royal chamber, which was substituted, having failed to carry on the administration of justice properly, the king was obliged to recall the parlement, and the archbishop was sent into honorable exile to Conflans[clarification needed], where he remained from August 1754 until October 1757.

[3] Efforts were made to induce him to resign the active duties of his see to a coadjutor, he refused despite the most tempting offers - including a cardinal's hat.

He was strongly opposed to the project of Diderot, D’Alembert and others to publish the Encyclopédie, and he appointed the censors who required the modification or deletion of articles which were deemed contrary to Church teaching.

[8] In 1762 the Society of Jesus was suppressed in France, and de Beaumont realised that if the king and the Parlements were able to take such a drastic step the Church itself was in potential danger.

I would not be heard on this point were I wretch enough to lend my ministry to it, which I should be dishonouring.’ [10] De Beaumont's Mandements, lettres et instructions pastorales were published in two volumes in 1780, the year before his death.