Louis-Marie-Edmond Blanquart de Bailleul (1795, Calais - 1868) was a French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 Roman Catholic bishop. He worked as a lawyer for a time, before becoming the third bishop of Versailles (1832-1844) and then archbishop of Rouen

Archbishop of Rouen

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rouen is an Archdiocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in France. As one of the fifteen Archbishops of France, the ecclesiastical province of the archdiocese comprises the majority of Normandy....

 (1844-1858). As bishop of Versailles, on 18 October 1837 he presided over the Catholic marriage service of Princess Marie of Orléans

Princess Marie of Orléans (1813-1839)

Marie Christine Caroline Adélaïde Françoise Léopoldine of Orléans, known as Marie of Orléans was a French princess and, by her marriage, duchess of Württemberg...

 and Duke Alexander of Württemberg

Duke Alexander of Württemberg (1804-1881)

Alexander of Württemberg was Duke of Württemberg.-Biography:He was the son of Alexander of Württemberg and Antoinette of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld...

 at Versailles, and in 1843 he consecrated Versailles's main town church as the cathedral

Versailles Cathedral

St. Louis of Versailles Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral, and national monument of France, in Versailles....

of the 33-year-old diocese.

External links

• http://www.visite-de-rouen.com/eveques.htm
• http://www.cathedrale-versailles.org/histoire_anglais.php