Louis Bourdaloue

Louis Bourdaloue (* August 20, 1632 in Bourges, † May 13, 1704 in Paris) was a French Jesuit and preacher. He was at the time as " king of preachers and preachers of kings ".

His father, Etienne Bourdaloue, a lawyer, was a noted orator. At the age of 15, he entered the Society of Jesus. As a teacher of rhetoric, philosophy and moral theology, he worked in various Jesuit College. He began to preach in 1665 in the provinces, and his success as a preacher led his superiors to call him in 1669 to Paris.

At the court of the Sun King Louis XIV, he preached long-winded, but so captivating that especially the ladies want to miss a word of it among his hearers. His voice was said to be " nice and respectability ." His strength lay in his ability to adapt to the audience.

At that time, has become common that the ladies from home battered Sauce Boat with attached to the church, in which they may have nonchalantly emptied her bladder under the wide, long skirts. The porcelain factories attacked the new custom on and soon formed a vessel that had the sauce boats still possible, but more suitable for Into - urination: the " pot de chambre oval ". This then gradually in other public occasions often used utensil was provided with all kinds of ornaments (often salacious nature ) and offered in various forms. However, it became common, the term Bourdalou for it.