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BERTRICH , a See also:

village and watering See also:place of See also:Germany, in the Prussian See also:Rhine See also:province, in a narrow valley See also:running down to the See also:Mosel near See also:Cochem. Its See also:waters are efficacious in cases of See also:gout, See also:rheumatism and biliary affections. Pop. 500. B$RULLE, See also:PIERRE DE (1575-1629), See also:French See also:cardinal and statesman,was See also:born at Serilly, near See also:Troyes, on the 4th of See also:February 1575. He was educated by the See also:Jesuits and at the university of See also:Paris. Soon after his ordination in 1599, he assisted Cardinal See also:Duperron in his controversy with the See also:Protestant Philippe de See also:Mornay, and made numerous converts. He founded the See also:Congregation of the French See also:Oratory in 1611 and introduced the Carmelite nuns into See also:France, notwithstanding the opposition of the friars of that See also:order, who were jealous of his ascendancy. Berulle also played an important See also:part as a statesman. He obtained the necessary dispensations from See also:Rome for Henrietta Maria's See also:marriage to See also:Charles I., and acted as her See also:chaplain during the first See also:year of her stay in See also:England. In 1626, as French See also:ambassador to See also:Spain, he concluded the treaty of Monzon. After the reconciliation of See also:Louis XIII. with his See also:mother, See also:Marie de' See also:Medici, through his agency, he was appointed a councillor of See also:state, but had to resign this See also:office, owing to his See also:Austrian policy, which was opposed by See also:Richelieu.

Berulle encouraged See also:

Descartes' philosophical studies, and it was through him that the Samaritan See also:Pentateuch, recently brought over from See also:Constantinople, was inserted in Lejay's Polyglot See also:Bible. His See also:treatise, See also:Des Grendeurs de Jesus, was a favourite See also:book with the Jansenists. He died on the 2nd of See also:October 1629. His See also:works, edited by P. Bourgoing (2 vols., 1644) were reprinted, by See also:Migne in 18J7. See M. de Berulle et See also:les See also:Carmelites; Le Pere de Berulle et l'oratoire de Jesus; Le Cardinal de Berulle et Richelieu (3 vols., 1872-1876), by the See also:Abbe M. See also:Houssaye; and H. See also:Sidney See also:Lear's Priestly See also:Life in France in the Seventeenth See also:Century (See also:London, 1873).

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