BOURDOISE, ADRIEN. – French priest, b. at Brou in 1584, d. in Paris in 1665, apostle and reformer of the clergy, for whom he founded in Paris in 1611 the “community,” later converted into the seminary, of St-Nicolas du Chardonnet. His zeal and example contributed effectively to the multiplication in France of seminaries and parish schools, which served as their seedbeds. His doctrine on the dignity and duties of the priesthood is condensed in his booklet L'idée d'un bon ecclésiastique ou les sentences chrétiennes et cléricales (Le Puy 1658, frequently reprinted).
BIBL.: J. Darche, Le 1st abbé B., 2nd ed. Paris 1884; M. Schoenher, Histoire du séminaire de St-Nicolas du Chardonnet, 2 vols., there 1909; J. Dedieu, s. V. in DHG, X, cols. 154–157.
Edmondo Lamalle