The French philosopher and skeptic Pierre Bayle (1647-1706) was the author of the Historical and Critical Dictionary. This unique philosophy source book was one of the most influential works during the 18th-century Enlightenment. Pierre Bayle was born...

Pierre Bayle plays a singularly important role as a precursor of the philosophes (deistic or materialistic writers and thinkers of the Enlightenment). Many of his ideas, as set forth in the Dictionaire historique et critique (Historical and Critical...

Bayle, Pierre(1647–1706) Pierre Bayle, the most important and most influential skeptic of the late seventeenth century, was born in Carla (now Carla-Bayle), a French village near the Spanish frontier, where his father was the Protestant pastor....

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Pierre Bayle was one of the most famous and thoroughgoing skeptics of his day This fact is difficult to reconcile with his professed Calvinism, the sincerity of which is anybody's guess. Some commentators maintain that it was completely genuine. Frederick the Great and...

Correspondance de Pierre Bayle. Vol. 1: 1662-1674. Lettres 1-65. Ed. by ELISABETH LABROUSSE and others. Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation. 1999. xliv + 432 pp. + 24 plates. This long-awaited first volume of Bayle's complete correspondence, superseding the many incomplete editions that have...