François Brune (18 August 1931, Vernon, Eure – 16 January 2019, Paris) was a French Catholic priest and writer.

In 1960, he obtained a degree in theology from the Institut catholique and joined the Compagnie des prêtres de Saint-Sulpice before teaching in various major seminaries, in Nantes, Rodez and Bayeux.

[4] In one of his works, François Brune welcomes the return to ideas from before the ecclesial crisis of the 1960s to 2000s, such as the notion of sin or the importance of the sacrament of reconciliation, but also the retreat in the Catholic Church of materialist theses denying the existence and importance of the supernatural and miracles, theses which, according to him, reduce vague humanitarian and philanthropic philosophy.

[6] Very hostile to Saint Augustine's "appalling and despairing theology" on the damned masses, he regrets that his influence has been hypertrophied in the West to the detriment of the Greek Fathers much closer in his opinion to true Christianity.

He first wrote books in the collection "Signes de piste" for teenagers, then he specialized in economics and advertising[7] In fact, this other François Brune published as early as 1973 a story entitled "Memoirs of a future President" in the Newspaper "Combat": as he explains on his literary blog, it was on this occasion that he gave himself this author's name by combining his first name and that of his wife.