**POULPIN,** AUGUSTIN-FRANÇOIS. - Jesuit, mystical writer, b.
He contributed to the development of the theology of the Church by adding some important developments on the Church, grounds of credibility, and on the respective methods of apologetics and theology. He also published a good number of articles in the *Revue des sciences philosophiques et théologiques* and in the *Revue du clergé français*.
BIBL.: H. D. Noble, A. de P., in *L'année dominicaine*, 57 (1921), pp. 58-66, 109-16; A. Gardeil, preface to *L'Eglise catholique*, éd. cit. Tommaso Camelot