Francis Garasse

Francis Garasse (French: ''François Garasse''; 1585-1631) was a French Jesuit, preacher, polemicist and writer. He was the Jesuitical writer, notable, for his wit and buffoonery, but more distinguished himself by his writings which were bold, licentious, scurrilous, and produced much controversy.

This controversial and satiric writer is chiefly remembered as the first author of irreconcilable enmity between Jesuits and Jansenists, in the church of Rome, with his publication entitled ''La Somme Theologique des Verites Capitales de la Religion Chretienne'' (''Theological Summary of the Capital Truths of the Christian Religion'').

He is also 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''. Provided by Wikipedia