Louis-Gui de Guérapin de Vauréal

[1][2][3][4][5] The évêque was a prominent figure at the royal court during the reign of King Louis XV.

Amongst others, he held the position of Maître ecclésiastique de la Chapelle du Roi (Ecclesiastical Master of the King’s Chapel) from 1732 until his death in 1760.

He was a major opponent of the Jansenists and presided at five assemblies of the clergy of Brittany in the years 1732, 1734, 1736, 1738 and 1740.

[9][10][11][12][3][13][5][14] In 1750, he bought the Hôtel Chanac de Pompadour and made it his residence in Paris.

However, as Abbé François Marie Tresvaux du Fraval (1782–1862) remarked: "Louis-Guy de Guérapin de Vauréal had the talent to write well, and since he was an ambassador, his dispatches were considered models in their field.

Louis-Guy de Guérapin, Baron de Vauréal et Comte de Belleval, Évêque de Rennes . The date of 1749, which appears in his portrait, corresponds to that of his election at the Académie Française (seat 23).
Stained glass window of the Basilique Notre-Dame-de-Bonne-Nouvelle in Rennes . It shows Louis-Guy de Guérapin de Vauréal in prayer, imploring the Virgin during the great fire of 1732.
Coat of arms of Louis-Guy de Guérapin de Vauréal.