Louis Baunard

Louis Baunard (24 August 1828 – 9 November 1919) was a French rector of the Catholic University of Lille and historian.

[1] Baunard was born at Bellegarde-en-Gâtinais (Loiret), France, on 24 August 1828, and died in the departement of Nord, in Gruson on 9 November 1919.

In the two theses which he wrote he treated of the pedagogy of Plato and of Theodulphus, Bishop of Orléans in the time of Charlemagne.

He wrote the biographies of Saint Louise de Marillac, the foundress of the Daughters of Charity (1898); of (Madame) Saint Madeleine Sophie Barat (1876), foundress of the Ladies of the Sacred Heart; of Vicomte Armand de Melun (1880), Cardinal Pie, Bishop of Poitiers (1886), Cardinal Lavigerie (1896), Ernest Lelièvre, co-founder of the Little Sisters of the Poor (1905), and Philibert Vrau, the Christian manufacturer (1906).

His Espérance (1892) deals with on the beginnings of the French religious revival at the end of the nineteenth century; his L'évangile du pauvre (1905) appeared during a period of social unrest.