Antoine-Alexandre Barbier (1872). Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes: A-D (in French). Paris: P. Daffis. pp. 685–687. Georges Simon, in: L'épiscopat français..., p. 307.
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Tressay, pp. 61-75, tells the traditional tale, much embellished by imaginative reconstruction. It is said that Philibert brought six hundred monks from Jumièges to populate his new monastery. The facts are few, and they do not connect Luçon with Philibert. René Poupardin, Monuments de l'histoire des abbayes de Saint-Philibert (Paris: A. Picard 1905). pp. 61, 81. La Fontenelle, pp. 14-15, 18.
Bishops and priests were also to be salaried by the State. The salaries were paid out of funds realized from the confiscation and sale of church properties. After the Concordat of 1801, bishops and priests continued to be salaried and pensioned by the State, down to the Law of Separation of 1905, Article 2. Jean Marie Mayeur (1991). La séparation des Églises et de l'État (in French). Paris: Editions de l'Atelier. p. 11. ISBN978-2-7082-4340-8.
A native of Reims, Colbert, brother of the King's minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert, was a doctor of theology (Sorbonne). He had been Abbot commendatory of two monasteries and Dean of two Collegiate Churches. He was nominated bishop of Luçon by King Louis XIV on 8 Feb 1661, and approved in Consistory by Pope Alexander VII on 30 May 1661. He built the seminary quarters. He was appointed Bishop of Auxerre) by Pope Clement X on 16 November 1671; Cheney, Catholic-Hierarchy.org is wrong in giving the date as 16 September 1671. Colbert died on 5 September 1676. Fisquet, Honore (1864). La France pontificale (Gallia Christiana): Metropole de Sens: Sens et Auxerre (in French). Paris: Etienne Repos. pp. 418–424. La Fontanelle II, pp. 503–539. Gauchat, IV, p. 225 with note 6. Ritzler-Sefrin, V, p. 90 with note 3.
Ordained in 1791, Soyer served as an underground priest, and assumed various disguises and during the Revolution exercised his ecclesiastical functions in the suburbs of Poitiers. At the Concordat, he was named Vicar General of Poitiers, and administered the diocese during the Sede Vacante of 1805–1808. He was named bishop of Luçon on 14 November 1817, but he did not receive papal confirmation until 24 September 1821; he was consecrated a bishop in Paris at Saint Sulpice on 21 October 1821 by Bishop Latil of Chartres. Soyer died on 5 May 1845. Georges du Tressay (1872). Vie de Mgr. Soyer, évêque de Luçon (in French). Paris: Lecoffre. Georges Simon, in: Société bibliographique (France) (1907), L'épiscopat français, pp. 304–306. Ritzler-Sefrin, VII, p. 244.
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Born in 1950 at Fontainebleau, Bishop Jacolin is a member of the Missionnaires de la Plaine et de Sainte-Thérèse. He holds a licenciate in biblical theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University (Rome). He was transferred from the Diocese of Mende, where he had been bishop for eleven years (2007–2018), by Pope Francis on 29 May 2018. Diocèse de Luçon, Bienvenue à notre nouvel évêque : Mgr Jacolin; retrieved: 29 May 2018. (in French)
