BOURDON DE L'OISE, lwaz, Francois Louis, French revolutionist: b. Saint Remy, about 1750; d. Cayenne, Guiana, after 1797. He figured in the attack on the Tuileries, 10 Aug. 1792, and did much to bring to pass the execu tion of the king and the fall of the Girondists, but from July 1794 adopted the side of the nobles and clergy. In 1795 he was sent as a commissioner to Chartres, where he behaved harshly and brutally. After joining a Royalist club, he was proscribed and transported to Cayenne in 1797, where he died not long after.
boorg-an-bres, France, town, capital of the department of Ain, situated 232 miles southeast of Paris, on the Reyssouse and the Cone. It is well built and ornamented with public fountains, one of which was erected to the memory of General Joubert. The streets are narrow and clean. On the Promenade du Bastion is a bronze statue of Bichat, the celebrated anatomist, who pursued his early medical studies in the hos pital here. The parish church of Bourg-en Bresse is a handsome edifice of the 16th cen tury. Outside the town is a magnificent hos pital, surrounded by gardens, and the beautiful Gothic church of Brou, built by the direction of Margaret of Austria, daughter of Maxi milian I. In front of the portal stands a curi ous elliptical sun-dial, reconstructed by the celebrated astronomer Lalande, who was a na tive of this place. Bourg-en-Bresse has a
library, a museum, a lyceum, seminary, two hospitals, a lunatic asylum, some manufactories of linen and hosiery tanneries, a cotton mill, I grain market, etc. Its trade in grain, cattle, horses and wine is considerable. Pop. 20,545. Consult Charvet, 'Les Edifices de Brou Bourg-en-Bresse) (1897).
boo du'-koo'dra', Louis Albert, French musical critic and composer: b. Nantes, 2 Feb. 1840; d. July 1910. He became a lawyer, but with a talent for music studied composition under A. Thomas at the Paris Conservatory. With his cantata, 'Louise de he won the Prix de Rome in 1865 and took the three years' study and travel course in Italy. In 1868, on his return to Paris, he founded a choral society to sing the works of older masters. His visit to Greece in 1872 to study the music of the Greek Church resulted in the publication of 'Souvenirs dune mission musicale en Grece,' 'Trente melodies populaires de Grece et d'Orient) and 'Etudes sur la musique ecclesi astique grecque.' He became professor of the history of music at the Paris Conservatory in 1878. Among his works are the comic operas 'L'atelier de Prague' 1858; 'Michel Colomb' (1887) ; (Thamara,' a grand opera (1891); a 'Stabat Mater' ; choral works with orchestra, and orchestral compositions.