BERULLE, PIERRE DE (1575-1629), French cardinal and statesman, was born at Serilly, near Troyes, on Feb. 4, 7 5 . He was educated by the Jesuits and at the University of Paris. He assisted Cardinal Duperron in his controversy with the Prot estant Philippe de Mornay, founded the Congregation of the French Oratory in 1611, and introduced the Carmelite nuns into France. Berulle obtained the necessary dispensations from Rome for Henrietta Maria's marriage to Charles I., and acted as her chaplain during the first year of her stay in England. In 1626, as French ambassador to Spain, he concluded the treaty of Mon zon. After the reconciliation of Louis XIII. with his mother, Marie de' Medici, through his agency, he was appointed a coun cillor of state, but had to resign this office owing to his Austrian policy which was opposed by Richelieu. His treatise, Des Gran deurs de Jesus, was a favourite book with the Jansenists. He died on Oct. 2, 1629. His works, edited by P. Bourgoing were reprinted by Migne in See Abbe M. Houssaye, M. de Berulle et les Carmelites; Le Pere de Berulle et l'oratoire de Jesus; Le Cardinal de Berulle et Richelieu (1872-76) ; H. Sidney Lear, Priestly Life in France in the Seventeenth Century