François-André de Tilly
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François-André Roussel de Tilly, from Moulins, who died in 1775, was a French prelate of the 18th century and Bishop of Orange, France.[1]
He was an abbot of Mazan Abbey, St. Eusebius Apt and Abbey Mauleon. He was appointed Bishop of Orange in 1731 by Louis XV.[2] In 1760 he removed to the Abbey of Notre-Dame du Puy Orange and meets at the Abbey of St. Croix Apt. In May 1774 he resigned from his diocese and died on 30 July 1775 in Saint-André-de-Ramières near Gigondas.[3][4] He was the second-last bishop of the diocese.[5]
