François Garasse

François Garasse (1585-1631) was a French Jesuit polemicist. He was known for intemperate attacks on other theologians and thinkers, including Lucilio Vanini and Pierre Charron, whom he called athée et le patriarche des esprits forts.[1]

He was born at Angoulême. At the Jesuit Collège Ste. Marthe in Poitiers in 1607-8, he taught Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac. He died at Poitiers, of the plague.[2]

He was himself made the target of an anti-Jesuit work of 1626 by Duvergier de Hauranne.[3]

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Notes

  1. ↑  "Pierre Charron". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1913.
  2. ↑  "Poitier". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1913.
  3. ↑  "Duvergier de Hauranne". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1913.
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