[1][2][3] 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).
[4] 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.
[6] In 1611, he published a book of elegies entitled Elegiarum de funesta morte Henrici magni liber singularis, on the death of Henry IV of France, and Sacra Rhemensia Carolina Heroica nomine Collegii Pictavensis oblata Ludov.
Regi Christianissimo in sua inauguratione, a poem in heroic verse addressed to Louis XIII of France, on his inauguration.
The book was attacked in 1626 by abbot of St.Cyran[9] and the rector of the Sorbonne complained to his society about the evil tendencies of a composition which recommended heretical opinions and prodigious number of falsifications of Scripture and the fathers.