1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Tenpin, Pierre Guérin de

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19434221911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 26 — Tenpin, Pierre Guérin de

TENPIN, PIERRE GUERIN DE (1679-1758), French ecclesiastic, archbishop of Embrun and Lyons, and cardinal, was born at Grenoble on the 22nd of August 1679. H e owed his quick advance to power to his sister Claudine (see above). He was a strong opponent of the Jansenists, and in 1742 was appointed a minister of state to Louis XV., though he held no portfolio. He died on the 2nd of March 1758.