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Bayle, Pierre
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A native of Languedoc; first Protestant (as the son of a Calvinist minister), then Catholic, then sceptic; Professor of Philosophy at Padua, then at Rotterdam, and finally retired to the Boompjes in the latter city; known chiefly as the author of the famous Dictionnaire Historique et Critique , to the composition of which he consecrated his energies with a zeal worthy of a religious devotee, and which became the fountain-head of the sceptical philosophy that flooded France on the eve of the Revolution; pronounced by a competent judge in these matters, a mere "imbroglio of historical, philosophical, and anti-theological marine stores" (1647-1700).
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Bayle, Pierre'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/b/bayle-pierre.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Bayle, Pierre'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/b/bayle-pierre.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
