François de La Chaise

French priest

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In Père-Lachaise Cemetery
King Louis XIV’s confessor, Father François de La Chaise d’Aix (commonly called le Père La Chaise), resided there, and the cemetery’s name derives from him. The Jesuits renamed the hill Mont-Louis in honour of the king, who reportedly visited the area during times of unrest, as during the Fronde.…
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