Background
Ducaud-Bourget was born in Bordeaux.
Ducaud-Bourget was born in Bordeaux.
During World World War II he was active in the French Resistance as a priest, and helped Jews to escape to Spain. He was decorated by the government of Charles de Gaulle for his work. He was probably deprived of this title later, though public documentation is unclear.
When he was excluded from this in 1971, he tried in vain to obtain from the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris François Marty another place in which only the Tridentine Mass would be celebrated.
When he failed in this, he organised the take-over, on 27 February 1977, of the parish church of Saint-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet, expelling the priest in charge. When he died at Saint-Cloud in 1984, aged 86, he was buried in the church of Saint-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet, which has a portrait bust of him over his tomb.
He was succeeded in charge the church by Father Philippe Laguérie, who later founded the Institute of the Good Shepherd. In his Le Cercle d"Ulysse, Jean Delaude presents Ducaud-Bourget as the successor of Jean Cocteau as "Nautonnier" (Grand Master) of the Priory of Sion.