Gabriel Cortois de Pressigny

Gabriel Count Cortois de Pressigny (Dijon, December 11, 1745 - Paris, May 2, 1823) was a French prelate, Bishop of Saint-Malo and then Archbishop of Besançon.[1][2]

Monsignor gabriel cortois de pressigny.

Biography

Born in Dijon on December 11, 1745, Gabriel Cortois de Pressigny is the son of Claude-Antoine Cortois, coseigneur of Quincey, counselor to the Parliament of Burgundy, and Anne de Mussy. He is the youngest brother of Pierre-Marie-Magdeleine Cortois Balore successively bishop of the former diocese of Alais and Nimes and the nephew of Gabriel Cortois de Quincey, bishop of Belley.[3]

Vicar General of Langres, abbot commendatory of Saint-Jacques in the diocese of Béziers, he is the prior of the priory of Commagny in Moulins-Engilbert, of which he holds the benefit at the time of the Revolution. He was appointed bishop of Saint-Malo on December 11, 1785, and crowned on January 15, 1786 by the bishops of Langres, Dijon and Chalons. He had chosen as vicar general Jacques Julien Mesle Grandclos, who was first archdeacon and, since 1782, abbot commendatory of the Abbey of Notre-Dame de la Chaume Machecoul.

On October 14, 1790, he was served the civil constitution of the French clergy and the abolition of his bishopric decreed by the National Assembly. Refusing to take an oath, he finds himself forced into exile, first in Chambéry, then in Switzerland and Bavaria.

Returning to France after the signing of the 1801 Concordat, he played no role under the First Empire. He offered his resignation to the pope only in 1816, a typical attitude of the survivors of the episcopate of the Ancien Régime, ultra-royalist and Gallican.

Charged in August 1814 by Louis XVIII to negotiate a new concordat with the Holy See, he was recalled in the spring of 1816, and was named peer of France and then archbishop of Besançon on September 20, 1817. But he did not officially take possession of his seat until November 1, 1819. Very often absent from the diocese, he died in Paris on May 2, 1823.

References
  1. René Surugue, Les archevêques de Besançon : biographies et portraits, Besançon, 1931 Maurice Rey (sous la dir.), Histoire des diocèses de Besançon et de Saint-Claude, Paris, Beauchesne, 1977
  2. Chanoine Amédée Guillotin de Corson, Pouillé historique de l'archevêché de Rennes, Rennes, Fougeray et Paris, René Haton, 1880-1886, 6 vol. in-8° br., couv. impr.
  3. Aimé Vingtrinier, Revue du Lyonnais. Recueil Historique et Littéraire (Troisième Série), vol. XV, p. 131
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