François Garasse was a French Jesuit polemicist. He was known for intemperate attacks on other theologians and thinkers, including Lucilio Vanini

Lucilio Vanini

Lucilio Vanini was an Italian free-thinker, who in his works styled himself Giulio Cesare Vanini.He was born at Taurisano, near Lecce, and studied philosophy and theology at Rome. After his return to Lecce he applied himself to the physical studies which had come into vogue with the Renaissance....

 and Pierre Charron

Pierre Charron

Pierre Charron was a French 16th-century Catholic theologian and philosopher, and a disciple and contemporary of Michel Montaigne.-Biography:...

, whom he called athée et le patriarche des esprits forts.

He was born at Angoulême. At the Jesuit Collège Ste. Marthe in Poitiers

Poitiers

Poitiers is a city on the Clain river in west central France. It is a commune and the capital of the Vienne department and of the Poitou-Charentes region. The centre is picturesque and its streets are interesting for predominant remains of historical architecture, especially from the Romanesque...

 in 1607-8, he taught Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac

Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac

Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac was a French author, best known for his epistolary essays, which were widely circulated and read in his day. He was one of the founding members of Académie française.-Biography:...

. He died at Poitiers, of the plague.

He was himself made the target of an anti-Jesuit work of 1626 by Duvergier de Hauranne.