BULLET, JEAN-BAPTISTE. - French apologist and scholar, b. at Besançon in 1699, d. there on 6 Sept. 1775. He was professor of theology and dean at the University of Besançon. He wrote several works of apologetics, employing sound method and rich erudition.
Worthy of mention are: Histoire de l'établissement du christianisme, tirée des seuls auteurs juifs et païens, où l'on trouve une preuve solide de la vérité de cette religion (Besançon 1764), a work translated into several languages and published in various editions; L'existence de Dieu démontrée par les merveilles de la nature (Paris 1768); Réponse critique à plusieurs difficultés proposées par les nouveaux incrédules, sur divers endroits des Livres saints (3 vols., ibid. 1773), a work which, with the addition of a fourth volume edited by Moïse, was reprinted several times. B. also devoted himself to historical studies, writing various dissertations and memoirs on different subjects.