Paul Robert HERTAULT DE BEAUFORT (Pignerol 1668 - 1745) Bishop of LECTOURE (Gers) from 1721 to 1745 - Doctor in Sorbonne. He had the choir of the cathedral of Lectoure rebuilt, destroyed in 1473. He hunted in his diocese the Jansenists - Piece signed " + P.R. Ev. de Lectoure ", Paris, October 21, 1726. 1 page large in-8° oblong: " We received from Mr. Ogier Receiver general of the Clergy on the fees of our deputation to the general Assembly of the Clergy held in this year the sum of fifteen hundred livres of which receipt ".

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