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Des Bois de Rochefort, Leonore Marte

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a French prelate, was born at Paris in 1739; became doctor of the Sorbonne, vicar-general of La Rochelle, rector of St. Andre-des-Arts, at Paris, and finally constitutional bishop of Amiens. He also presided at the Assemblee Legislative, and was one of the editors of the Annales de la Religion. He died in 1807, leaving, among other works, Lettres Pastorales et Mandemeunts (Paris, 1800). See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.