François Véron (1575-1649) was a scientist Jésuite French, preacher and reader of the king, appointed writer of the clergy for the controversies and priest of Charenton-the-Bridge close to Paris. He is the author of a considerable series of texts (treated, acts of conferences) on the catholic faith and against the reformed Church.

Inter alia:

• Professio fidei catholicae... (Profession of the catholic foy…)
• Abbrégé of the methods of traicter of the controversies of religion, taught and prattiquées by S. Augustin and the other S. Fathers…
• Apologie for Saincts Pères séants be the first five centuries councils… (1623)
• easy new Method and solid to convince of nullity the reformed alleged Religion…; Answer to all the books of Calvin, Beze… (1623)
• the achievement of the prophecy of David of the catch of Montauban and the La Rochelle, and speech on the glorious return of monseigneur the cardinal illustrissime of Richelieu (1629)
• Acts of the conference on all the articles discussed in the religion, especially on S. Sacrement of Eucharistie by Escriture saincte and falsifications of the Bibles of Geneva (1629)
• Of the schism and heresy damnable of the ministers of Charenton… (after 1631)
• Charge made in front of nosseigneurs of the General meeting of the clergy against Whetstone, minister of Charenton, prédicant of a third abolishing religion all the others, Mestrezat, accomplice (1635)
• the discipline of the reformed alleged churches of France i.e., the order by which they are led and controlled; according to whether it esté reveue and corrected with the national synod held in Charenton the year 1631; with the refutation of icelle… (1643)
• Of controlled fidei catholicae… (General rule of the catholic foy…) (1645)

Several works are translated into English and German.

See too

• National Synod of Charenton (1631),
• Counter-Reformation