BAUDRILLART, HENRI-MARIE-ALFRED. — Cardinal, born in Paris on 6 Jan. 1859, died there on 19 May 1942. A graduate in history and law, he entered the Oratory Congregation in 1890; three years later he was ordained priest and became professor at the Institut catholique in Paris, which he was to promote significantly as rector from 1907 to 1942. In 1915 he founded the « Comité catholique de propagande française à l’étranger ». A member of the Académie française (2 May 1918), he was elected titular bishop of Himeria on 29 July 1921, promoted to the titular archbishopric of Melitene in 1928, and raised to the cardinalate by Pius XI in the secret consistory of 16 Dec. 1935.
He served as editorial secretary (1891–97) and then director (1898–1908) of the Bulletin critique; he was one of the founders of the Revue pratique d’apologétique (1905) and the first director of the DHG (vols. I–III, Paris 1912–24). He wrote several works, among which the following deserve mention: Philippe V et la cour de France (5 vols., Paris 1890–1901, his principal work); L’Eglise catholique. La Renaissance. Le Protestantisme (ibid. 1904); Quatre cent ans de Concordat (ibid. 1905); Lettres de direction de mgr. d’Hulst (ibid. 1905); Vie de mgr. d’Hulst (2 vols., ibid. 1912–14).