id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9588 Jean Meslier - Wikipedia .html text/html 2687 291 70 Jean Meslier (French: [melje]; also Mellier; 15 June 1664[1] – 17 June 1729) was a French Catholic priest (abbé) who was discovered, upon his death, to have written a book-length philosophical essay promoting atheism and materialism. The following passage is found at the end of Voltaire's Extrait, and has been cited in support of the view that Meslier was not really an atheist.[17] However, the passage does not appear in either the 1864 complete edition of the Testament, published in Amsterdam by Rudolf Charles,[18] or in the complete works of Meslier published 1970–1972.[19] Another book, Good Sense (French: Le Bon Sens),[20] published anonymously in 1772, was long attributed to Meslier, but was in fact written by Baron d'Holbach.[21] The book was mistakenly identified as the work of Jean Meslier (1664–1729), a Catholic priest who had renounced Christianity in a posthumously published Testament. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9588.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9588.txt