Marcel, author, editor, and translator, brother of Marie Dominique Bouix, was born at Bagnéres-deBigorre, France, 25 June, 1806; d. at Paris, 28 December, 1889. He entered the Society of Jesus at the age of nineteen and taught in the colleges of the Society in Spain∗'and Switzerland. He spent some years of his life in the exercise of the sacred ministry, but the work to which he devoted himself for nearly forty years was the translation, revision, and publication of new editions of the great spiritual writers. These he enriched with introduetions, commentaries, and historical notes of great value. His various editions of the life and works of St. Teresa, to the study and translation of which he gave sixteen years of his life, from 1848 to 1864, caused a remarkable revival of interest in” the great Carmelite reformer. His ‘Vie de Sainte Thérése, acrite par elle-méme” (Paris, 1852), passed through twelve editions, and was translated into German and Dutch. His “GSuvres de Sainte Thérése”, in three volumes (Paris, 1852-54-56), reached a third edition in 1860. “(Euvres spirituelles du Saint Pierre d'Alcantara” (Paris, 1862), Father Caraffa’s “School of Divine Love” (Lyons, 1863), and a new translation of “The Following of Christ” (Poitiers, 1864) are three of the eight works issued in two years. Revised editions of Father Mumford’s “Purgatory” (Paris, 1863), of St. Francis de Sales’ “Treatise on the Love of God” (Paris, 1864), and of “The Spiritual Works of St. Francis Borgia” (Paris, 1869) are valuable contributions to ascetic theology. “Saint Joseph d’aprés les saints et les maitres de la vie spirituelle” (Paris, 1863) is Father Bouix’s own original contribution to religious literature. One of his most valuable services was the publication, for the first time, of the “Memoriale” of Pierre Lefévre, (Bl. Peter Faber) one of the first companions of St. Ignatius Loyola, in the original Latin and in a French translation (Paris, 1873). This work was translated into English by Father H. J. Coleridge, S.J. (London, 1873). Father Bouix translated into French the letters of St. Ignatius (Paris, 1870) and Father du Font's “Life of Father Alvarez” (Paris, 1873). He published the “(Suvres spirituelles” of Father Jean-Joseph Surin in three volumes (Paris, 1879-82). The translation of Leonard Lessius’s ‘Les noms divins” (Paris, 1882) was one of the last works from the pen of this indefatigable writer, whose many years of labour enriched the literature of France with popular spiritual books of sound Catholic theology.
Durovaver in Dict. de théol. cath., 11, 1091-92; Sommbrvogel, Bibl., I, 1922-28. é