André Boullanger

André Boullanger (1578–1657), more commonly known as petit Père André ("little Father André"), was a French Roman Catholic monk and preacher of the reformed order of Augustines.

Life André Boullanger was born at Paris in 1578. He was the son of a President of the Parlement (High Court) of Paris. At an early age he entered the Augustinian Order and became a well-known preacher, being heard for over half a century in most of the great pulpits of France. He preached for fifty-five years and gained a wide reputation. His singularity consisted in a habit of interspersing his sermons with a few droll expressions, in order, as he said, to keep his hearers awake. He died at Paris on 27 September 1657. Many of his manuscripts entered the convent of Queen Margaret, but the following funeral oration for Marie of Lorraine was published: Oraison Funebre de Marie' de Lorraine, Abbesse de Chelles (Paris, 1627).