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
Nicolas Malebranche was a French Oratorian Catholic priest and rationalist philosopher. In his works, he sought to synthesise the thought of St. Augustine and Descartes, in order to demonstrate the ac