HABERT, LOUIS. - French moral theologian of Jansenist tendencies, born at Blois or in its vicinity in 1635, died in Paris on 7 April 1718. He became a doctor of the Collège de Navarre and was vicar general to several bishops.
Besides his collaboration on anonymously published works of a pastoral character, he wrote a Theologia dogmatica et moralis (7 vols., Lyons 1709-12; 8 vols., Venice 1770). This work was prohibited and condemned for Jansenism by certain bishops, including Fénelon, who subjected it to severe criticism. It was also attacked by M. Dumas,
doctor of the Sorbonne, in the Lettres d'un docteur de la Sorbonne (letter 4), to which H. replied with the Réponse à la quatrième lettre d'un docteur de la Sorbonne (1714).
Sentenced to exile for having accepted the bull Unigenitus only with serious reservations, he returned after the death of Louis XIV, devoting himself once more to casuistry at the Collège de Navarre until his death.