DUDON, PAUL. – Jesuit, historiographer, b. at Sabres (Landes) on 6 February 1859; d. at Toulouse on 23 March 1941. After completing his studies, he joined the periodical Etudes (from 1889 to 1932), where he chose as his field of work the religious history of modern times, with particular attention to the history of the Society of Jesus. In 1933, for reasons of health, he moved to Toulouse, where he continued his work as a writer.
He composed and published many articles for the principal journals of Catholic culture, in addition to Etudes; for example, Recherches de science religieuse, Revue d'ascétique et de mystique, Archivum Historicum S. I., etc.; among his other individual works, the following should be noted: Le quiétiste espagnol Michel Molinos, 1628-96 (Paris 1921); Le gnostique de st Clement d'Alexandrie, opus. inédit de Fénelon (ibid. 1930); St Ignace de Loyola (ibid. 1934).