Andrew Fournet (1752–1834) was a priest who, with St. Elizabeth Bichier, established the Congregation of the Daughters of the Holy Cross. He was born near Poitiers in 1752. He was bored by many things, including religion, as a youth. However, he was later influenced by one of his uncles, a rural pastor, and later became a priest himself, and eventually the parish priest of his hometown Maillé. He retired from his parish duties in 1820, but continued to direct the sisters of the new congregation until his death in 1834.