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Specific works banned by the Catholic Church on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, discontinued in 1966.
Authors whose complete works were banned:
Giordano Bruno
Hugo Grotius
Thomas Hobbes
René Descartes
Gregorio Leti
Voltaire
David Hume
Stendhal
George Sand
Honoré de Balzac
Vincenzo Gioberti
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Alexandre Dumas
Émile Zola
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Maurice Maeterlinck
Anatole France
Jean-Paul Sartre
André Gide
Alberto Moravia
Authors whose complete works were banned:
Giordano Bruno
Hugo Grotius
Thomas Hobbes
René Descartes
Gregorio Leti
Voltaire
David Hume
Stendhal
George Sand
Honoré de Balzac
Vincenzo Gioberti
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Alexandre Dumas
Émile Zola
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Maurice Maeterlinck
Anatole France
Jean-Paul Sartre
André Gide
Alberto Moravia
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The Complete Essays
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
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The Spirit of the Laws
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A Sentimental Journey
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Critique of Pure Reason
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Matter and Memory
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The Last Temptation of Christ
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Religio Medici
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The Revolt of the Angels
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Pensées
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Jacques the Fatalist and His Master
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Candide
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Treatise on Nature and Grace
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Contes et Nouvelles en vers
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The Political History of the Devil
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Persian Letters
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Jacques the Fatalist
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The Social Contract
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Emile, or On Education
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Julie, or the New Heloise
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Dos Delitos e das Penas
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The Story of My Life
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Deontology; or, The Science of Morality
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Principles of Political Economy: And Chapters on Socialism
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Introduction to Positive Philosophy
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Salammbo
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History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science
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Creative Evolution
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Ideal Marriage, Its Physiology and Technique
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The Second Sex
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The Mandarins
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