Bernard Bauer, abbe, a French priest, born in Pesth, Hungary, in 1829. He was a member of a wealthy Jewish family, left his studies to enlist in the French array in 1848, and after an adventurous life became a convert to the Roman Catholic church and joined the Carmelite order. His eloquence acquired for him a great reputation in Germany and France; and he became honorary canon, apostolical prothonotary, and chaplain at the Tuileries. He was a special favorite of the empress Eugenie, whom lie accompanied to Egypt at the opening of the Suez canal. During the siege of Paris he figured as chaplain of the ambulances of the press, having under his orders 800 freres chretiem, dressed as priests, though not in holy orders. He often showed himself on horseback, dressed in a soutane and long boots, with the grand cross of the legion of honor on his breast, and an episcopal ring on his finger. He has published Le Judaisme comme preuve du Christianisme, a series of lectures which he had delivered in 1866 in Vienna and Paris; Napoleon III, et l'Europe en 1867, a political pamphlet (Paris, 1867); and Le but de la vie, a collection of his sermons preached at the Tuileries (1869).