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a French theologian, was born at Nimes in 1713. At the time when the question arose whether toleration should be given to the Protestants or not, he published the following works: La Verite Vengee (1756): — Memoise Politico-Critique, etc. (1757): — Apologie de Louis Quatorze et de son Conseil sur la Revocation de l'Edit de Nantes, etc. (1758): Appel a la Raison,des Ecrits Publis on itre les Jesuites de France (Brussels, Paris, 1762, 2 vols.). He was an antagonist of J. J. Rousseau, and published Lettre d'un Visigoth a M. Freron, sur sa Dispute Harmonique avec M. Rousseau (Paris, 1754): — Nouvelle Lettre a Al Rousseau de Geneve (ibid. 1754), etc. He sided with the Jesuits, and was banished in 1762, but afterwards returned, and died in 1782. See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Gé né rale, s.v.; Rose, Gen. Biog. Dict. s.v.