Charrier
Charrier [1]
(d.e la Roche), Louis, a French prelate, was born at Lyons, May 17, 1738. He was made doctor. March 17, 1764, and not long after was appointed vicar-general of Lyons, and vice-general of the commons. He attached himself to the Jansenist party, and thus fell into controversy on politico- religious questions. In 1791 he took the oath of the civil constitution of the clergy, and was appointed as constitutional bishop of the department .of Seine-Infbrieure. He continued, however, his inflammatory course, and, on Oct. 26, 1791, resigned his office, left France, and wrote to several of his fellows to follow his example. Some time afterwards Charrier returned to France, and published an Examen of the decree of Aug. 27, 1791, on marriage. He at length became reconciled with the pope, and ceased his political agitation. Being appointed bishop of Versailles, and at length first chancellor of Bonaparte in 1802, Mgr. Charrier assisted at the Council of Paris in 1811.. He died March 17, 1827. Among his publications are, Refutatioin de Iunstruction Pastorale de I'Eveque de Boulogne sur l'Authorite Spirituelle (1791, 8vo) :-Questions sur les Affaires Presentes de l'Eglise de France (179'2, 8vo). See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.
