BERTRICH

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BERTRICH , a

village

VILLAGE

and watering place of Germany, in the Prussian Rhine province, in a narrow valley running down to the Mosel near Cochem. Its waters are efficacious in cases of gout, rheumatism and biliary affections. Pop. 500.
B$RULLE, PIERRE DE (1575-1629), French cardinal and statesman,was born at Serilly, near

Troyes

TROYES

, on the 4th of February 1575. He was educated by the

Jesuits

JESUITS

and at the university of Paris. Soon after his ordination in 1599, he assisted Cardinal Duperron in his controversy with the

Protestant

PROTESTANT

Philippe de Mornay, and made numerous converts. He founded the

Congregation

CONGREGATION (Lat. congregatio, a gathering together, from cum, with, grex, gregis, a flock, herd)

of the French Oratory in 1611 and introduced the Carmelite nuns into France, notwithstanding the opposition of the friars of that order, who were jealous of his ascendancy. Berulle also played an important part as a statesman. He obtained the necessary dispensations from Rome for Henrietta Maria's

marriage

MARRIAGE

to Charles I., and acted as her chaplain during the first year of her stay in England. In 1626, as French

ambassador

AMBASSADOR (also EMBASSADOR, the form sometimes still used in America; from the Fr. ambassadeur, with which compare Ital. ambasciatore and Span. embajador, all variants of the Med. Lat. ambassiator, ambassiator, ambasator, &c., derived from Med. Lat. amba

to Spain, he concluded the treaty of Monzon. After the reconciliation of Louis XIII. with his

mother

MOTHER

, Marie de' Medici, through his agency, he was appointed a councillor of state, but had to resign this office, owing to his Austrian policy, which was opposed by Richelieu. Berulle encouraged Descartes' philosophical studies, and it was through him that the Samaritan Pentateuch, recently brought over from

Constantinople

CONSTANTINOPLE
CONSTANTINOPLE, COUNCILS OF

, was inserted in Lejay's Polyglot Bible. His treatise, Des Grendeurs de Jesus, was a favourite book with the Jansenists. He died on the 2nd of October 1629. His works, edited by P. Bourgoing (2 vols., 1644) were reprinted, by Migne in 18J7.
See M. de Berulle et les Carmelites; Le Pere de Berulle et l'oratoire de Jesus; Le Cardinal de Berulle et Richelieu (3 vols., 1872-1876), by the Abbe M.

Houssaye

HOUSSAYE, ARSINE (1815-1896)

; and H. Sidney Lear's Priestly Life in France in the Seventeenth Century (London, 1873).

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