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François Lefebvre de Caumartin or Jean François Paul Lefèvre de Caumartin (16 December 1668 in Châlons-en-Champagne – 30 August 1733 in Blois) was a French bishop.
He was elected member of the Académie Française in 1694 and member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres in 1701.
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