Jean Caveirac

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Jean Caveirac [1]

a French theologian, was born at Nimes in 1713. At the time when the question arose whether toleration should be given to the Protestants or not, he published the following works: La Verite Vengee (1756): — Memoise Politico-Critique, etc. (1757): — Apologie de Louis Quatorze et de son Conseil sur la Revocation de l'Edit de Nantes, etc. (1758): Appel a la Raison,des Ecrits Publis on itre les Jesuites de France (Brussels, Paris, 1762, 2 vols.). He was an antagonist of J. J. Rousseau, and published Lettre d'un Visigoth a M. Freron, sur sa Dispute Harmonique avec M. Rousseau (Paris, 1754): — Nouvelle Lettre a Al Rousseau de Geneve (ibid. 1754), etc. He sided with the Jesuits, and was banished in 1762, but afterwards returned, and died in 1782. See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. G é n é rale, s.v.; Rose, Gen. Biog. Dict. s.v.

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