Deism Self Refuted (paperback)

Nicolas-Sylvestre Bergier (1718-1790), was a French Catholic Theologian during the Enlightenment Era. Born in Lorainne, Darney in 1715 and died in Paris, France in 1790. He was one of the most esteemed Catholic French apologists of his time, recognized by Rousseau himself as a capable philosophical adversary. He went through theological formation in the University of Besaçon and earned a doctorate before becoming ordained as a priest. He completed his studies in Paris before being appointed to a parish and becoming the president of the city college that had previously been run by Jesuits. In 1769 he was nominated by the Archbishop of Paris to be a part of the canon of the cathedral. Upon taking the position, Bergier relocated to Paris and spent much of his time working in apologetics, especially against the monumental figures of the French Enlightenment period such as Rousseau, Voltaire, and Diderot.

Deism Self-Refuted is one of his most famous works and was presented as a series of compiled letters that refuted the theologically and philosophically unsound ideas from Rousseau's famous work Emilé, a Treatise on Education and the Nature of Man.

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