Jean Georges Lefranc de Pompignan

Jean Georges Lefranc de Pompignan (22 February 1715 in Montauban – 29 December 1790 in Paris) was a French clergyman, younger brother of Jean-Jacques Lefranc, Marquis de Pompignan.

His father, Jacques Lefranc, was president of the Cour des Aides; and his mother, Mademoiselle de Caulet, was the daughter of a man who held a judicial rank in the Parlement de Toulouse.

He was born in Montauban,[1] and was raised at the family's Château de Cayx in Cahors.

Like his brother, he studied with the Jesuits at the Collège de Clermont, and then with the Sulpicians.

[2] As archbishop of Vienne his defense of the faith against Voltaire launched the good-natured mockery of Les Lettres d'un Quaker.