| Type: | Cardinal |
| Honorific-Prefix: | His Eminence |
| Jean-Baptiste de Latil | |
| Honorific-Suffix: | COHS |
| Cardinal, Archbishop of Reims, Peer of France | |
| Church: | Roman Catholic Church |
| Archdiocese: | Reims |
| See: | Notre-Dame de Reims |
| Term Start: | 12 July 1824 |
| Term End: | 1 December 1839 |
| Predecessor: | Jean-Charles de Coucy |
| Successor: | Thomas-Marie-Joseph Gousset |
| Other Post: | Cardinal-Priest of San Sisto |
| Birth Date: | 6 March 1761 |
| Birth Place: | Île Sainte-Marguerite, France |
| Death Place: | Gémenos, Provence, France |
| Previous Post: | Bishop of Chartres |
| Nationality: | French |
| Coat Of Arms: | Armes du cardinal Jean-Baptiste de Latil (1761-1839).svg |
Jean-Baptiste Marie Antoine de Latil, count then duke of Latil, Peer of France, French ecclesiastic. He is the last to have crowned a King of France in the person of Charles X in 1825. He performed the Coronation of Charles X while Archbishop of Reims, five years before the July Revolution brought down the Bourbon Dynasty.
Son of Antoine de Latil and Gabrielle Thérèse de Magny, he was born on Île Sainte-Marguerite on March 6, 1761.[1] Ordained a priest in 1784, he was a priest in Saint-Sulpice Parish in Paris. In 1791, he refused to take an oath to the Civil Constitution of the Clergy. Imprisoned, he then went to Düsseldorf and entered the service of Charles Philippe, Count of Artois; he was appointed bishop in partibus Amiclée March 8, 1816 and ordered April 7, 1816, then named bishop of Chartres August 8, 1817. Archbishop of Rheims April 6, 1824; as such, he consecrated Charles X as king on May 29, 1825.
Latil became a Peer of France on October 31, 1822, and was appointed a knight commander of the Holy Spirit on May 12, 1825. He was created cardinal at the Consistory of March 13, 1826, with the title of Cardinal Priest of Saint Sixtus. He followed Charles X in his new exile of 1830.
Latil died in Gémenos (Bouches-du-Rhône) on December 1, 1839. His body is buried in the vault of the archbishops in the cathedral of Reims.