Félix Fournier
Félix Fournier was a dignitary of the Catholic Church, a French politician, and Bishop of Nantes from 1870 to his death in 1877.
Biography
Félix Fournier was born on 3 May 1803 in Nantes and died on 9 June 1877 in Rome. Fournier was ordained in 1827. He was vicar and parish priest of the parish of Saint-Nicolas in Nantes from 1836 to 1870 before reaching the Bishopric.Fournier was elected once, in 1848, as a deputy of Lower Loire and participated in the work of the Constituent Assembly where he sat on the right with the supporters of Bonapartism. Fournier played a decisive role in the completion work of the Cathedral of Nantes, trying to gain the government's interest and obtaining the necessary funding for completion. In 1837 he founded a local Society of Saint Vincent de Paul.
He died during a pilgrimage to Rome in 1877. His tomb was installed in 1883.