FRANCIS, a remarkable Jesuitical writer, the first author of that irreconcilable enmity that still subsists between the Jesuits and Jansenists, in the church of Rome, was born at Angoulesme in 1585, and entered the Jesuits college in 1600. As he had a quick imagination, a strong voice, and a peculiar turn to wit, he became a popular preacher in the chief cities of France; but not content with this honour, he distinguished himself still more by his writings, which were bold, licentious, and produced much controversy. The most considerable in its consequences was entitled La somme theologique des veritez capitales de la religion Cretienne; which was first attacked by the abbot of St Cyran, who observing in it a prodigious number of falsifications of the Scriptures and of the fathers, besides many heretical and impious opinions, conceived the honour of the church required him to undertake a refutation. Accordingly he published a full answer to it; while Garasse's book was also under examination of the doctors of the Sorbonne, by whom it was afterwards condemned. Garasse replied to St Cyran; but the two parties of Jesuits and Jansenists, of whom these were respectively the champions, grew to an implacable animosity against each other, that is not even now likely to subside. The Jesuits were forced to remove their brother to a distance from Paris; where, probably weary of his inactive obscurity, when the plague raged at Poictiers in 1631, he begged leave of his superior to attend the sick, in which charitable office he caught the disorder, and died.