ANTOINE, PAUL-GABRIEL. - French theologian, b. at Lunéville on 19 Jan. 1678, d. at Pont-à-Mousson on 22 Jan. 1743. Having entered the Society of Jesus at an early age, he was professor of philosophy and theology at the college of Pont-à-Mousson, of which he was later named rector. Subsequently, he served as instructor of the fathers of the third probation and superior of the professed house at Nancy.
In 1723 he published a *Theologia universa speculativa et dogmatica ad usum theologiae candidatorum* (several reprints), intended to combat Jansenist propositions but somewhat indulgent toward prevailing Gallicanism. In 1726 he followed with the celebrated treatise: *Theologia moralis, universa complectens omnia morum praecepta et principia, decisiones omnium casuum conscientiae*, which went through many editions and was highly esteemed by St. Alphonsus Liguori, though he found it overly rigid. The Conventual Minorite Filippo da Carbignano prepared several reprints (1750, 1757, 1760) with additions and appendices for use by missionaries.
The author was also a skilled ascetical writer. He composed: *Lectures chrétiennes* in the form of meditations, Nancy 1736, later commended in: *Méditations pour tous les jours de l'année*, 1737; *Les moyens d'acquérir la perfection chrétienne*, 1738; *Démonstration de la vérité chrétienne et catholique*, 1739. In spirituality, his ideas closely resemble those of Fr. de Caussade, whose anonymous work he published: *Instructions spirituelles sous forme de dialogues sur les divers états d'oraison*, Perpignan 1741.