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François Ducaud-Bourget (November 24, 1897 - June 12, 1984) was a prominent traditionalist Roman Catholic

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prelate,

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and close ally of Archbishop

Marcel Lefebvre Marcel François Marie Joseph Lefebvre (; 29 November 1905 – 25 March 1991) was a French Catholic archbishop who greatly influenced modern traditional Catholicism. In 1970, he founded the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX), a community to train ...

French resistance

Ducaud-Bourget was born in

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. During

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he was active in the

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as a priest, and helped Jews to escape to

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. He was decorated by the government of

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for his work. He had been made a

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of the

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in 1946 and an

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. He was probably deprived of this title later, though public documentation is unclear.

Second Vatican council

Rejecting the

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of the

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that followed the

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, he organised celebration of the Latin

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in the chapel of the Hôpital Laënnec, a former hospital in

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. When he was excluded from this in 1971, he tried in vain to obtain from the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris

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another place in which only the Tridentine Mass would be celebrated. When he failed in this, he organised the take-over, on 27 February 1977, of the parish church of

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, expelling the priest in charge. When he died at

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in 1984, aged 86, he was buried in the church of Saint-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet, which has a portrait bust of him over his tomb. He was succeeded in charge the church by Father

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, who later founded the

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In popular culture

In his ''Le Cercle d'Ulysse'', Jean Delaude presents Ducaud-Bourget as the successor of

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as "Nautonnier" ( Grand Master) of the

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.Pierre Jarnac, ''Les Mystères de Rennes-le-Château, Mélanges Sulfureux'' (CERT, 1994).

References

External links

''Le Hérisson spirituel'', article (in French) by François Ducaud-Bourget

Homily by Msgr. Francois Ducaud-Bourget at a Mass for the repose of the soul of Pope Paul VI at Saint Nicholas-du-Chardonnet
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