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Melchior de Polignac (
October 11 1661–
November 20 1742), was a
French diplomat,
Roman Catholic cardinal and
neo-Latin poet.
A younger son of
Armand XVI, marquis de Polignac, he was born at Lavoûte-sur-Loire, near
Le Puy-en-Velay,
Auvergne. At an early age he achieved distinction as a diplomat. In
1695 he was sent as ambassador to
Poland, where he succeeded in bringing about the election of
François-Louis de Bourbon, prince de Conti as successor to
John Sobieski (1697). The subsequent failure of this intrigue led to his temporary disgrace, but in 1702 he was restored to favour, and in 1712 he was sent as the
plenipotentiary of
Louis XIV of France to the
Congress of Utrecht.
During the regency he became involved in the
Cellamare conspiracy, and was relegated to
Flanders for three years. From 1725 to 1732 he acted as a French emissary at the
Holy See. In 1726, he received the
Archbishopric of Auch, and he died at
Paris in 1742. He left unfinished a metrical refutation of
Lucretius which was published after his death by the
abbé de Rothelin (
Anti-Lucretius, 1745), and was very popular in its day.
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