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Frère Jacques Beaulieu, OP (); 1651–1720), also known as Frère Jacques Baulot, was a travelling lithotomist with scant knowledge of anatomy and was also a Dominican eMedicine - Bladder Stones : Article by Joseph Basler
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Frère Jacques Beaulieu, OP (); 1651–1720), also known as Frère Jacques Baulot, was a travelling lithotomist with scant knowledge of anatomy and was also a Dominican friar
A friar is a member of one of the mendicant orders founded in the twelfth or thirteenth century; the term distinguishes the mendicants' itinerant apostolic character, exercised broadly under the jurisdiction of a superior general, from the o ...
. Beaulieu performed the frequently deadly procedure in France into the early 18th century.
The urologic community often claims Beaulieu is subject of the French nursery rhyme ''Frère Jacques
"Frère Jacques" (, ), also known in English as "Brother John", is a nursery rhyme of French origin. The rhyme is traditionally sung in a round.
The song is about a friar who has overslept and is urged to wake up and sound the bell for the mati ...
'' (also known in English as Brother John), but this is not well-established. A possible connection between ''Frère Jacques'' and Beaulieu, as claimed by Irvine Loudon and many others, was explored by J. P. Ganem and C. C. Carson without finding any evidence for a connection.
Some have suggested that ''Frère Jacques'' was instead written to mock the Jacobin monks of France (Jacobins are what the Dominicans are called in Paris)./ref>
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