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Claude-Adrien Nonnotte
Claude-Adrien Nonnotte (born in Besançon, 29 July 1711; died there, 3 September 1793) was a French Jesuit controversialist, best known for his writings against Voltaire.
At nineteen he entered the Society of Jesus and preached at Amiens, Versailles, and Turin. When Voltaire began to issue his "Essai sur les moeurs" (1754), which the Catholic Church considered an attack on Christianity, Nonnotte published, anonymously, the "Examen critique ou Réfutation du livre des moeurs"
M. de Boullongne", after Gilles Allou", 1750
- "Portrait de M. Le Lorrain", after Claude-Adrien Nonnotte
- "La Colère d’Achille"
- "Adieu d’Hector et d’Andromaque", sujets tirés de "l’Iliade" d’Homère), after the paintings by Coypel
- "Les Misères de la guerre"
- "Le Déjeuner flamand" (dont le tableau est connu en Flandre sons le nom de "La Dévote de Teniers"), after David Teniers the Younger.