Dictionnaire Historique Et Critique De Pierre Bayle

by Pierre Bayle, Pierre Desmaizeaux, Eusebe Renaudot

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

592 pages, Paperback

Published July 29, 2018

About the author

French philosopher Pierre Bayle, considered the progenitor of 18th-century rationalism, compiled the famous Dictionnaire historique et critique in 1697 and championed the cause of religious tolerance.

People later renamed Carla-le-Comte as Carla-Bayle in his honour.

His father, a Calvinist minister, and an academy at Puylaurens educated him. He afterwards entered a Jesuit college at Toulouse and, a month later in 1669, joined as a Roman Catholic. After seventeen months, he returned to Calvinism and fled to Geneva.

The teachings of René Descartes acquainted him. He returned, went to Paris, and for some years worked under the name of Bèle as a tutor for various families. In 1675, people appointed him to the chair at the Protestant academy of Sedan. In 1681, the government suppressed the university at Sedan in action against Protestants.

Bayle fled to the Dutch Republic just before that event, and the École Illustre in Rotterdam almost immediately appointed him professor. He taught for many years, but a long internal quarrel in the college embroiled him. As a result, people deprived Bayle of his chair in 1693.

Bayle in Rotterdam died. People buried his body and that of Pierre Jurieu, seven years later, in the Waalse Kerk.