  Gassendi's views were often transmitted in the early modern era through the medium of François Bernier's Abrégé (1678/84), which work highlights the atomist views and materialist tendencies of Gassendism. Such themes, as well as empiricist threads of Gassendism, were attractive to a number of late seventeenth century physicists and physicians (viz. Nicholas de Blégny, Guy Patin, Antoine Menjot, and Guillaume Lamy) and other philosophers (viz. Gilles de Launay), as well as those among the Montmor circle or libertins érudits (viz.  Samuel Sorbière, Jean Chapelain, and Cyrano de Bergerac). Still others, especially Cartesians such as Desgabets and Cordemoy, were rather distasteful of those themes, as were hard-line theologians such as Louis Le Valois.