HARLAY DE CHAMPVALLON, FRANCOIS DE (1625-1695), 5th archbishop of Paris, was born in that city on Aug. 14, 1625. Nephew of Francois de Harlay, archbishop of Rouen, he was presented to the abbey of Jumieges immediately on leaving the College de Navarre, and he was only twenty-six when he succeeded his uncle in the archiepiscopal see. He was transferred to the see of Paris in 1671, he was nominated by the king for the cardinalate in 169o, and the domain of St. Cloud was erected into a duchy in his favour. At first a firm adherent of Mazarin, he is said to have helped to procure his return from exile. He definitely secured the favour of Louis XIV. by his support of the claims of the Gallican Church formulated by the declaration made by the clergy in assembly on March 19, 1682, when Bossuet accused him of truckling to the court like a valet. One of the three witnesses of the king's marriage with Madame de Maintenon, he was hated by her for using his influence with the king to keep the matter secret. He had a weekly audience of Louis XIV. in company with Pere la Chaise on the affairs of the Church in Paris, but his influence gradually declined. He urged the revocation of the edict of Nantes, and showed great severity to the Huguenots at Dieppe, of which he was temporal and spiritual lord. He died on Aug. 6, See Abbe Legendre, Vita Francisci de Harlay (Paris, 1720) and Eloge de Harley (1695) ; Saint-Simon, Memoires (vol. ii., ed. A. de Boislisle, 1879), and numerous references in the Lettres of Mme. de Sevigne.