Charles de Condren, Cong. Orat., was a French Catholic mystic of the 17th century and is considered a leading member of the French School of Spirituality.
The Congregation of the Oratory of Jesus and Mary Immaculate, best known as the French Oratory or Oratory of Jesus, is a society of apostolic life of Catholic priests founded in 1611 in Paris, France,
Cardinal Pierre de Bérulle, founder of the French Oratory
The Oratorian college in Vendôme, to which the author Honoré de Balzac was sent at the age of eight