Martyrdom
He died a violent death on 2 September 1792 in an improvised prison inside the house of the Carmelite Friars in central Paris, where he was being held with two priests of the diocese of Arles, Armand de Foucauld de Pontbriand and Pierre François Pazery de Thorame, and a large number of other clerics. Those killed included two other bishops, Francois-Joseph de la Rochefoucauld and Pierre-Louis de la Rochefoucauld, priests, clerics and lay religious for a total of 94 men.
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