Jean Soanen (1647–1740) was a French Oratorian and bishop of Senez. He was a convinced Jansenist.
In opposition to the papal bull Unigenitus, he with Charles-Joachim Colbert, bishop of Montpellier, Pierre de la Broue who was bishop of Mirepoix, and Pierre de Langle who was bishop of Boulogne, appealed against it in 1717 to a general council.[1] This group and their followers were known as Appellants; the council was though entirely hypothetical as an idea.
Later, he sent out a pastoral letter to his congregation, urging the reading of Pasquier Quesnel. Pierre Guérin de Tencin, the archbishop of Embrun, then in 1727 had him exiled from his diocese.[2]
He died in 1740 at La Chaise-Dieu, where he was exiled since 1727.