Florent du Bois de La Villerabel

Florent Michel Marie Joseph du Bois de La Villerabel (29 September 1877 – 7 February 1951), archbishop of Aix, Arles and Embrun (1940–1944), was the most prominent of seven French mainland or colonial bishops who, in the aftermath of the Liberation, were obliged to submit their resignations to Pope Pius XII because of their close collaboration with the Germans during the German occupation of France from 1940 to 1944.

Life and career Villerabel was born in Saint-Brieuc in Brittany. He was ordained as a priest in June 1900, consecrated by his cousin, , bishop of Amiens, subsequently Archbishop of Rouen and Primate of Normandy.

The head of the French government, Charles de Gaulle, proposed that thirty collaborationist prelates should resign, but the diplomatic skills of the Papal Nuncio, Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, reduced the number.

Villerabel's retirement (when he resumed his former titulature of Aenos or Enos which he had held as auxiliary bishop to the Archbishop of Tours from 1920 to 1940) was spent at Solesmes Abbey and at St Brieuc. He died in his home city of Saint-Brieuc on 7 February 1951 at the age of 73.