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LOUIS (bör-dä-lö'), a Jesuit, and one of the greatest preach- 1632. The extreme popularity of his ers France ever produced, was born in him to Paris where at their Church of sermons induced his superiors to call St. Louis, his eloquence attracted crowds, and he became the favorite preacher of Louis XIV., who, on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, sent him into Languedoc to convert the Protestants.
Toward the latter part of his life he rarely ascended the pulpit, and devoted himself to attending the sick, visiting the prisons and other works of charity; and died in 1704 universally lamented. larger than brevier and smaller than