
Family tree of Henri GREGOIRE
Priest, nun, rabbi, imam..., Politician in the French Ancien Régime
Born Henri Baptiste GREGOIRE
French Roman Catholic priest, constitutional bishop of Blois and a revolutionary leader
Born on December 4, 1750 in Vého , France
Died on May 28, 1831 in Paris , France
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He was elected in 1789 by the clergy of the bailliage of Nancy to the Estates-General, where he soon made his name as one of the group of clerical and lay deputies of Jansenist or Gallican sympathies who supported the Revolution.
... Grégoire was born at Vého near Lunéville, the son of a tailor. Educated at the Jesuit college at Nancy, he became curé (parish priest) of Emberménil in 1782. In 1783 he was crowned by the Academy of Nancy for his Eloge de la poésie, and in 1788 by that of Metz for an Essai sur la régénération physique et morale des Juifs.
He was elected in 1789 by the clergy of the bailliage of Nancy to the Estates-General, where he soon made his name as one of the group of clerical and lay deputies of Jansenist or Gallican sympathies who supported the Revolution.
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