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a French prelate, was born in 1727. He was the son of Philip V and brother of Charles III. Designed from infancy for the ecclesiastical calling, he was at the age of eight years made cardinal by pope Clement XII. At the death of his father he resigned the archbishopric of Toledo and his office as cardinal, and devoted himself to music, botany, andl natural history, which were to him much more congenial pursuits. He died at Villa de Arenas, Aug. 7, 1785. See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.