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Henri Marie Alfred Baudrillart

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BAUDRILLART, HENRI MARIE ALFRED (1859 ), French ecclesiastic, was born in Paris Jan. 6, 1859, the son of Henri Baudrillart. He was ordained priest in 1893, and occupied the chair of history at the Catholic Institute of Paris, of which he became rector in 1907. In 1908 he became vicar-general of Paris, and in 1915 founded the Catholic committee of French propaganda abroad. In 1918 he was made a member of the Academie f ran caise, and in 1921 was consecrated titular Bishop of Himeria. In Nov. 1925 he was made a papal count and bishop assistant at the pontifical throne.

Baudrillart's works include:

La politique de Henri IV. en Alle magne (1885) ; Philippe V. et la cour de France (1889-99) (Grand Prix Gobert) ; L'eglise catholique; La renaissance et le protestantisme (19o5) ; Quatre cents ens de Concordat (1905) ; La vie catholique dans la France contemporaine (1918), etc.

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