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Louis Bourdaloue

1632–1704 · Roman Catholic (Jesuit, France) · Paris, France

Louis Bourdaloue (1632–1704), Jesuit of Bourges, preached at court and in the Paris churches for more than thirty years and was ten times chosen for the Advent or Lenten station before the king. Where Bossuet moved his hearers by grandeur, Bourdaloue worked by close moral analysis, and his sermons on the passions and duties of the Christian life were long used as a manual of casuistry from the pulpit.

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