BAUDOT, PROSPER. – French Jesuit, born at Saint-Dié (Vosges) in 1846, entered the novitiate in 1872, exercised his ministry in Nancy and Paris; died at Vevey (Switzerland) on 31 March 1918. His meditations achieved very wide circulation: Les évangéliques, Vie de Jésus-Christ médité (Lille 1909; 1943, 144th thousand; Italian translation, Milan 1924).
He devoted himself chiefly to assisting priests: Au clergé, Solitudes: Recueil de retraites mensuelles sacerdotales (Paris 1901); Documents de ministère pastoral; Manuel à l'usage du clergé (2nd ed., 2 vols., ibid. 1909); Les évangéliques du prédicateur; Manuel homilétique d'évangile (ibid. 1909); Carnet d'évangile à l'usage des confesseurs (ibid. 1913).