This chapter reconstructs the life of Jean-Baptiste Stouppe (1623–1692), a Huguenot of Italian origin who in the 1650s moved to England and was employed by Oliver Cromwell in important diplomatic / espionage missions. Passing into the service of Louis XIV as a soldier, he published some pro-French propaganda works aimed at Protestants, including a famous description of Dutch religious life, published in 1673, notorious for its negative portrayal of Spinoza’s philosophy. While presenting himself as a defender of Protestant orthodoxy, Stouppe was in fact a libertine with magical-alchemical interests. An unscrupulous and ambiguous figure, his intellectual trajectory is clearly inserted in what has been defined as the crisis of the European conscience.

本章重建了让-巴蒂斯特·斯托普 (Jean-Baptiste Stouppe)（1623-1692 年）的生平，他是意大利裔胡格诺派教徒，于 1650 年代移居英国，并受雇于奥利弗·克伦威尔执行重要的外交/间谍任务。作为一名士兵，他为路易十四服务 ，出版了一些针对新教徒的亲法国宣传作品，包括 1673 年出版的对荷兰宗教生活的著名描述，因其对斯宾诺莎哲学的负面描绘而臭名昭著。在将自己表现为新教正统的捍卫者的同时，斯托普实际上是一个对魔法炼金术感兴趣的放荡者。作为一个肆无忌惮和模棱两可的人物，他的思想轨迹显然被插入了被定义为欧洲良心危机的地方。