Beaumont, Christophe de, archbishop of Paris, born at Périgord, “spent his life in persecuting hysterical Jansenists and incredulous non-confessors”; but scrupled to grant, though he fain would have granted, absolution on his deathbed to the dissolute monarch of France, Louis XV.; issued a charge condemnatory of Rousseau's “Émile,” which provoked a celebrated letter from Rousseau in reply (1703‒1781).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Bauma`ris * Beaumont, Francis