Everything this guy wrote was a NY Times bestseller in Germany, even though the story is full of holes like why did he go to India and what did he do there?
In 1671 he almost was jailed for writing in defense of the ideas of René Descartes, against whom a judicial arrest had been issued—an exploit he followed with an "Abrégé de la Philosophie de Gassendi", also not a subject to arouse official approval (1674)