Career
He was 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. He was born at Angoulêmedical Marthe in Poitiers in 1607-1608, he taught Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac.
He died at Poitiers, of the plague.