the 15th century and houses of the 15th and 16th centuries also remain. The industries of the town include the manufacture of farm implements.
In the middle ages Bourbon-Lancy was an important stronghold and a fief of the Bourbon family, from the name of a member of which the suffix to its name is derived.
BOURBON L’ARCHAMBAULT, a town of central France in
the department of Allier, on the Burge, 16 m. W. of Moulins by
rail. Pop. (1906) 2306. The town has thermal springs known
in Roman times, which are used in cases of scrofula and
rheumatism. The bathing-establishment is owned by the state.
A church dating from the 12th century, and ruins of a castle
of the dukes of Bourbon (13th and 15th centuries), including a
cylindrical keep, are of interest. There are a military and a
civil hospital in the town. Stone is quarried in the vicinity.
Bourbon (Aquae Borvonis or Bormonis) was anciently the
capital of the Bourbonnais and gave its name to the great Bourbon
family. The affix Archambault is the name of one of its early lords.
BOURBONNE-LES-BAINS, a town of eastern France, in the
department of Haute-Marne, 3512 m. by rail E.N.E. of Langres.
Pop. (1906) 3738. It is much frequented on account of its hot
saline springs, which were known to the Romans under the name
Aquae Borvonis. The heat of these springs varies from 110° to
156° F. The waters are used in cases of lymphatic affections,
scrofula, rheumatism, wounds, &c. The principal buildings are
a church of the 12th century, the state bathing-establishment
and the military hospital; there are also the remains of a castle.
Timber-sawing and plaster manufacture are carried on in the
town. In the neighbourhood are the buildings of the celebrated
Cistercian abbey of Morimond.
BOURCHIER, ARTHUR (1864– ), English actor, was born
in Berkshire in 1864, and educated at Eton and Christ Church,
Oxford. At the university he became prominent as an amateur
actor in connexion with the O.U.A.D.C., which he founded, and
in 1889 he joined Mrs Langtry as a professional. He also acted
with Charles Wyndham at the Criterion, and was for a while in
Daly’s company in America. In 1894 he married the actress
Violet Vanbrugh, elder sister of the no less well-known actress
Irene Vanbrugh, and he and his wife subsequently took the leading
parts under his management of the Garrick theatre. Both
as tragedian and comedian Mr Bourchier took high rank on the
London stage, and his career as actor-manager was remarkable
for the production of a number of successful modern plays, by
Mr Sutro and others.
BOURCHIER, THOMAS (c. 1404–1486), English archbishop,
lord chancellor and cardinal, was a younger son of William
Bourchier, count of Eu (d. 1420), and through his mother, Anne,
a daughter of Thomas of Woodstock, duke of Gloucester, was a
descendant of Edward III. One of his brothers was Henry,
earl of Essex (d. 1483), and his grand-nephew was John, Lord
Berners, the translator of Froissart. Educated at Oxford and
then entering the church, he obtained rapid promotion, and
after holding some minor appointments he became bishop of
Worcester in 1434. In the same year he was chancellor of the
university of Oxford, and in 1443 he was appointed bishop of
Ely; then in April 1454 he was made archbishop of Canterbury,
becoming lord chancellor of England in the following March.
Bourchier’s short term of office as chancellor coincided with the
opening of the Wars of the Roses, and at first he was not a strong
partisan, although he lost his position as chancellor when
Richard, duke of York, was deprived of power in October 1456.
Afterwards, in 1458, he helped to reconcile the contending
parties, but when the war was renewed in 1459 he appears as a
decided Yorkist; he crowned Edward IV. in June 1461, and four
years later he performed a similar service for the queen, Elizabeth
Woodville. In 1457 Bourchier took the chief part in the trial
of Reginald Pecock, bishop of Chichester, for heresy; in 1467 he
was created a cardinal; and in 1475 he was one of the four
arbitrators appointed to arrange the details of the treaty of
Picquigny between England and France. After the death of
Edward IV. in 1483 Bourchier persuaded the queen to allow
her younger son, Richard, duke of York, to share his brother’s
residence in the Tower of London; and although he had sworn
to be faithful to Edward V. before his father’s death, he crowned
Richard III. in July 1483. He was, however, in no way
implicated in the murder of the young princes, and he was
probably a participant in the conspiracies against Richard.
The third English king crowned by Bourchier was Henry VII.,
whom he also married to Elizabeth of York in January 1486.
The archbishop died on the 30th of March 1486 at his residence,
Knole, near Sevenoaks, and was buried in Canterbury cathedral.
See W. F. Hook, Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury (1860–1884).
BOURDALOUE, LOUIS (1632–1704), French Jesuit and
preacher, was born at Bourges on the 20th of August 1632. At
the age of sixteen he entered the Society of Jesus, and was
appointed successively professor of rhetoric, philosophy and
moral theology, in various colleges of the Order. His success as
a preacher in the provinces determined his superiors to call him
to Paris in 1669 to occupy for a year the pulpit of the church of
St Louis. Owing to his eloquence he was speedily ranked in
popular estimation with Corneille, Racine, and the other leading
figures of the most brilliant period of Louis XIV.’s reign. He
preached at the court of Versailles during the Advent of 1670
and the Lent of 1672, and was subsequently called again to
deliver the Lenten course of sermons in 1674, 1675, 1680 and
1682, and the Advent sermons of 1684, 1689 and 1693. This
was all the more noteworthy as it was the custom never to call
the same preacher more than three times to court. On the
revocation of the Edict of Nantes he was sent to Languedoc to
confirm the new converts in the Catholic faith, and he had
extraordinary success in this delicate mission. Catholics and
Protestants were unanimous in praising his fiery eloquence in
the Lent sermons which he preached at Montpellier in 1686.
Towards the close of his life he confined his ministry to charitable
institutions, hospitals and prisons, where his sympathetic
discourses and conciliatory manners were always effective. He
died in Paris on the 13th of May 1704. His peculiar strength lay
in his power of adapting himself to audiences of every kind, and
throughout his public career he was highly appreciated by all
classes of society. His influence was due as much to his saintly
character and to the gentleness of his manners as to the force of
his reasoning. Voltaire said that his sermons surpassed those of
Bossuet (whose retirement in 1669, however, practically coincided
with Bourdaloue’s early pulpit utterances); and there is little
doubt that their simplicity and coherence, and the direct appeal
which they made to hearers of all classes, gave them a superiority
over the more profound sermons of Bossuet. Bourdaloue may
be with justice regarded as one of the greatest French orators,
and many of his sermons have been adopted as text-books in schools.
Bibliography.—The only authoritative source for the Sermons is the edition of Père Bretonneau (14 vols., Paris, 1707–1721, followed by the Pensées, 2 vols., 1734). There has been much controversy both as to the authenticity of some of the sermons in this edition and as to the text in general. It is, however, generally agreed that the changes confessedly made by Bretonneau were merely formal. Other editions not based on Bretonneau are inferior; some, indeed, are altogether spurious (e.g. that of Abbé Sicard, 1810). Among critical works are: Anatole Feugère, Bourdaloue, sa prédication et son temps (Paris, 1874); Adrien Lézat, Bourdaloue, théologien et orateur (Paris, 1874); P. M. Lauras, Bourdaloue, sa vie et ses œuvres (2 vols., Paris, 1881); Abbé Blampignon, Étude sur Bourdaloue (Paris, 1886); Henri Chérot, Bourdaloue inconnu (Paris, 1898), and Bourdaloue, sa correspondance et ses correspondans (Paris, 1898–1904); L. Pauthe, Bourdaloue (les maîtres de la chaire au XVIIe siècle) (Paris, 1900); E. Griselle, Bourdaloue, histoire critique de sa prédication (2 vols., Paris, 1901), Sermons inédits; bibliographie, &c. (Paris, 1901), Deux sermons inédits sur le royaume de Dieu (Lille and Paris, 1904); Ferdinand Castets, Bourdaloue, la vie et la prédication d’un religieux au XVIIe siècle, and La Revue Bourdaloue (Paris, 1902–1904); C. H. Brooke, Great French Preachers (sermons of Bourdaloue and Bossuet, London, 1904); F. Brunetière, “L’Éloquence de Bourdaloue,” in Revue des deux mondes (August 1904), a general inquiry into the authenticity of the sermons and their general characteristics.
BOURDON, FRANÇOIS LOUIS (d. 1797), known as Bourdon de l’Oise, French revolutionist, was procureur at the parlement
