François Parked

François Parked , born with Angouleme in 1585 and died with Poitiers the June 19th 1631, was in its time a dreaded Jésuite of all the literary sphere.

His/her father who was member of a league, conspired against the duke of Épernon, governor of Angouleme for Henri III, and was killed with the door of the castle, as it tried to penetrate there. In 1601, Garasse entered the Society of Jesus: he solicited and obtained his superiors the permission to deliver himself to preaching. He put all his energy to fight against the Hérésie and the libertinage. Its propensity with calumny frightened, says one, the order of the same Jesuits, and he were contradicted per many his pars. Its virulent eloquence was used however the order at the time of its quarrel with the University as Paris, opposing the Roman allegiance of the Jesuits to the Gallicanisme of the Sorbonne.

All the life of the Garasse abbot was tended towards the denunciation and the persecution of libertinage - at the 17th century, the word libertinage qualifies before any libertinage of thought, which can involve a certain liberty of action in the facts.

It is implied in the committal for trial of Theophilus de Viau, which missed to lead this last to roughing-hew.

Anecdotes

One day of public controversy, Garasse treated one of the partisans of the University of “stupid by nature, stupid by natural sign, stupid by flat, stupid with the highest range, stupid with double sole, stupid with double dyeing, stupid into crimson, stupid in all kinds of stupidities! ” One says that the Jesuit left this tirade the scarlet face of fury.

Quotations

“By the word of libertine, I hear neither a huguenot, neither an atheistic , neither a Catholique, neither a Hérétique, nor a Politique, but a certain compound of all these qualities. ”

“I call libertines our ivrognets, midges of taverns, spirit insensitive with piety, which have of another God only the belly, which is enlisted in this cursed brotherhood that is called the Brotherhood of the Bottles. It is true that these people do not believe at all in a God, hate the huguenots and all kinds of heresies, sometimes have intervals luisants, and some small clearness which shows to them the poor wretch state of their heart; fear and apprehend death, are not at all stunned in the defect, think that there is a hell, but with the remainder they live licentiously, jettant the gourme like young foalta, enjoying the benefit of the age, thinking that over their old God days will receive them with mercy, and for this reason are well named when they are called Libertins, it is as which would say apprentices of atheism” (Extracted from the Doctrines curious about the beautiful spirits about this time, or claimed such , 1623)

“the Jesuit Parked, the Hardouin Jesuit, and other public liars, found atheists everywhere; but the Jesuit Parked, the Hardouin Jesuit, are not good to imitate. ” (Extracted from a letter of Voltaire to Doctor Pansophe, April 1766)

Works

Rabelais reformed by the Ministers and by name by Pierre of the Mill, minister of Charenton, for answer to the buffooneries inserted in its book of the vocation of the pastors (1620) - is the title of the work, the bold characters indicating the abbreviation of use to indicate work.
Doctrines curious about the beautiful spirits of this time, or alleged such (1623 - 1624)
History of the Jesuits of Paris during three years (1624 - 1626)
the Summa Theologica of the capital truths of the Christian religion (1625)

See too

Daniel Chamier

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