The Jesuits said no, the Fathers of the Oratory said yes.
The Jansenists of Port Royal were enthusiastic Cartesians.

Yet it was probably the influence of the great spiritual force of Jansenism that did most to check the immediate spread of Cartesian ideas.

It was preponderant in France for fifty years.

The date of the Discourse of Method is 1637.

The Augustinus of Jansenius was published in 1640, and in 1643 Arnauld's Frequent Communion made Jansenism a popular power.
The Jansenist movement was in France in some measure what the Puritan movement was in England, and it caught hold of serious minds in much the same way.