René-Joseph de Tournemine

He founded the Mémoires de Trévoux, the Jesuit learned journal published from 1701 to 1767,[1] and assailed Nicolas Malebranche with the charges of atheism and Spinozism.

[2][3] His Réflexions sur l'athéisme originated as a preface to the Traité de l'existence de Dieu (1713) by Fénelon, and was an effective direct attack on Spinoza; it argued that 'Spinozism' wasn't practically tenable.

[4] A debate with Leibniz on the mind-body problem[5] was prominent in the period.

[6] Tournemine taught the young Voltaire, and became his friend.

In correspondence from 1735, however, Voltaire was critical of the Jesuit reception of Newton and Locke.