BRIDAINE (or BRYDAYNE), JACQUES (1701-1767)  , French Roman Catholic preacher, was born at Chuslan in the department of Gard on the 21st of March 1701 . He was educated at Avignon, first in the Jesuit college and afterwards at the Sulpician seminary of St Charles . Soon after his ordination to the priesthood in 1725, he joined the Missions Royales, organized to bring back to the Catholic faith the Protestants of France . He gained their good-will and made many converts; and for over forty years he visited as a missionary preacher almost every town of central and southern . France . In Paris, in 1744, his sermons created a deep impression by their eloquence and sincerity . He died at Roquemaure, near Avignon, on the 22nd of December 1767 . Ile was the author of Cantiques spiriluels (Montpelier, 1948, frequently reprinted, in use in most French churches) ; his sermons were published in 5 vols. at Avignon in 1823 (ed . Paris, 1861) . See Abbe G . Carron, Le Modele des pretres (1803) .