JEAN-BAPTISTE BULLET. - French apologist and scholar, born in Besançon in 1699, died there on 6 Sept. 1775. He was professor of theology and dean at the University of Besançon. He wrote various apologetic works with 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 issued in multiple editions; *L'existence de Dieu dénoncée 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., 1773), a work that, with the addition of a fourth volume edited by Moïse, was reprinted several times. B. also engaged in historical studies, writing various dissertations and memoirs on diverse subjects.