BOUHOURS, DOMINIQUE (1628-1702), French critic, was born in Paris. He entered the Society of Jesus at the age of 16 and undertook educational work in various places until 1665 or 1666, when he returned to Paris, and published in 1671 Les Entretiens d'Ariste et d'Eugene, a critical work on the French tongue. He also wrote La Maniere de bien penser sur les ouvrages d'esprit (1687) , Doutes sur la langue f rancaise (1674), Vie de Saint Ignace de Loyola (1679), Vie de Saint Francois Xavier (1682), and translated the New Testament into French (1697). See Georges Doucieux, Un Jesuite homme de lettres au dix-septieme siecle: Le pore Bouhours (1886). For a list of Bouhours' works see Backer and Sommervogel, Bibliotheque de la Compagnie de Jesus, i. pp. 1886 et seq.