Jean de Brisacier

Jean de Brisacier (b. Blois, France, 9 June 1592 or 1603; d. there, 10 September 1668) was a Jesuit controversialist and opponent of Jansenism.

Career He entered the Society of Jesus in 1619; and Clermont,

These sermons quickly grew into a controversy which became known as the Brisacier Affair. In reply to the Jansenists' answer to his sermons, Brisacier repeated his charges, in a publication entitled Le jansénisme confondu dans l'advocat du sieur Callaghan, par le P. Brisacier, avec la deffense de son sermon fait à Blois, le 29 Mars, 1651, contre la response du Port Royal. This work was quickly condemned by Jean François Paul de Gondi, Archbishop of Paris, because of its personal attacks directed especially against the Jansenists of Port-Royal. After this censure the dispute continued for some time, and called forth a long series of pamphlets. As late as 1862, the controversy was kept up by Abbé Pletteau and G. Bordillon.