Pierre Guérin de Tencin

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Pierre Guérin de Tencin (22 August 1679 - 2 March 1758), French ecclesiastic, was archbishop of Embrun and Lyons, and a cardinal.

He was born at Grenoble. He owed his quick advance to power to his sister Claudine. 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.

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