Bellet, Charles

, member of the academy of Montanban, and who held a benefice in the cathedral there, was born at Querci, and died at Paris in 1771. Several prizes gained at Marseilles, at Bourdeaux, at Pau, at Rouen, his literary and ecclesiastical learning, and the purity of his manners, caused him to be respected at Montauban. By him are, 1. “L’Adoration Chretienne, dans la devotion du rosaire,” 1754, 12mo. 2. Several pieces of eloquence. 3. “Les droits de la religion sur le coeur de rhomme,” 1764, 2 vols. 12mo. ³