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[[File:Portrait Louis-Mathias de Barral.jpg|thumb|Louis Mathias de Barral Portrait]]
'''Louis-Mathias, Count de Barral''' (26 April 1746 – 7 June 1816) was a French church figure.

== Biography ==

He was born at [[Grenoble]] and was educated for the priesthood at the seminary of [[Église Saint-Sulpice, Paris|St. Sulpice]], in [[Paris]]. In 1774–1775 he was the Conclavist of Cardinal de Luynes in the papal election that produced [[Pope Pius VI]] (Braschi).<ref>{{cite book|title=Bulletin de la Société des sciences historiques et naturelles de l'Yonne|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d6w1AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA103|volume=50|year=1896|location=Paris-Auxerre|language=French|page=403}}</ref> He was made secretary, then [[coadjutor]], and in 1790, successor, to his uncle, the [[Bishop of Troyes]]. In 1790, he refused to take the oath to the civil constitution of the clergy, explaining his views and those of the Pope to the electors of his diocese in a pamphlet in the form of a letter.<ref>{{cite book|author=Louis-Matthias de Barral|title=Lettre de M. l'évêque de Troyes, à MM. les électeurs du département de l'Aube|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6TfkhfralnMC&pg=PA34|year=1790|language=French}}</ref> He then withdrew from [[France]] to [[Konstanz]] in [[Switzerland]] and later to [[England]].

In 1801 he returned home, and wrote a forceful pamphlet on the subject of bishops resigning their offices at the request of Pope Pius VII.<ref>{{cite book|author=Louis-Matthias de Barral|title=Lettre d'un évêque de France à un de ses collègues, sur la démission de leur siège, demandée par le bref de Pie VII, en date du 15 août 1801|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U8vNasmR2FgC|edition=seconde|year=1801|publisher=madame Lami|location=Paris|language=French}}</ref> Under the new concordat between France and the [[Holy See]], Barral was appointed to govern the [[Diocese of Meaux]], and in 1805 was promoted to the [[Archbishop of Tours|Archbishopric of Tours]]. During the long and harassing negotiations which [[Napoleon]] carried on with [[Pope Pius VII]], while the latter was virtually a prisoner at [[Savona]] and [[Fontainebleau]], Archbishop de Barral acted frequently as the emperor's intermediary. He was afterwards appointed almoner to the [[Empress Josephine]], and he pronounced her funeral oration. Later still he was named a Senator and a Count of the Empire.

On the downfall of Napoleon, the archbishop took his seat in the [[Chamber of Peers (France)|Chamber of Peers]] under [[Louis XVIII]], and in the government of the "[[Hundred Days]]", which followed on the return of Napoleon from [[Elba]], he still retained his political position. On the second restoration of the [[Bourbons]], however, he was obliged to resign, and from this time till his death, which occurred in the following year, he confined himself entirely to the administration of his archdiocese.

== Works ==

His writings include:
* {{lang|fr|Fragments relatifs à l'histoire ecclésiastique des premières années du XIXe siècle}} (Paris, 1814)
* {{lang|fr|Défense des libertés de l'église gallicane et de l'assemblée du clergé de France tenue en 1682, ou réfutation de plusieurs ouvrages publiés récemment en Angleterre sur l'infaillibilité du Pape}} (Paris, 1817)

==References==
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==Sources==
*{{cite book|title=Biographie des hommes vivants|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zXdhi-8T4VEC&pg=PA210|volume=Tome premier|year=1816|publisher=L.G. Michaud|location=Paris|language=French|pages=210–212}}
*{{cite book|editor= Michaud , Louis-Gabriel|title=Biographie universelle, ancienne et moderne: supplément|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zb84OlzEZikC&pg=PA184|volume=Tome 57|year=1834|publisher=Chez L.-G. Michaud, Libraire-Éditeur|location=Paris|language=French|pages=184–186}}

===Acknowledgment===
* {{Catholic Encyclopedia|wstitle=Louis-Mathias, Count de Barral |volume=3 |first=Edward Augustine |last=Gilligan}}

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