BULLET, JEAN-BAPTISTE. - French apologist and scholar, b. at Besançon in 1699, d. there on 6 September 1775. He was professor of theology and dean at the University of Besançon. He wrote various works of apologetics with good method and rich erudition.

Worthy of remembrance 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 that has been translated into various languages and has had several 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 that, with the addition of a fourth volume, edited by Moïse, has been reprinted several times. B. also occupied himself with historical studies, writing various dissertations and memoirs on different subjects.

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BIBL.: Hurter, V, coll. 52-53; J. Carreyre, s. v. in DHG, X, coll. 1209-10.

Francesco Carpino

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