When the Discours des Sorciers appeared it was prefaced in print by the approval and formal approbations of Doctors and Theologians not a few. No less a person than Père Coyssard, an influential member of the Society of Jesus and Rector of the Jesuit College at Besançon, vouched that the work contained nothing contrary to the Catholic Faith or hurtful to the soundest morality. Jean Dorothée signed the Imprimatur. De La Barre, Professor of Theology at the University of Dôle, unreservedly praised and recommended the book “auquel je n’ay rien treuué contraire à la Religion Catholique & Romaine, ny aux bonnes moeurs, ains plustost rempli de plusiers belles doctrines”; whilst two celebrated religious, most skilled theologians and canonists, Jean Le Comte, Prior of the old Augustinian convent at Lyons, and Amedée Besson, O.S.A., wrote that the Discours was an excellent treatise very necessary for the times, and finally the Vicar-General,
