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Pierre Bayle was a French philosopher, author, and lexicographer. He is best known for his Historical and Critical Dictionary, whose publication began in 1697. Many of the more controversial ideas in the book were hidden away in the voluminous footnotes, or they were slipped into articles on seemingly uncontroversial topics. Bayle is commonly regarded as a forerunner of the Encyclopédistes of the…
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culture · French philosopher and writer (1647–1706) · philosopher · writer · professor · journalist · literary critic · theologian · historian · lexicographer · also Pierre Bayle, Peter Bayle, C L A A P D P, Monsieur C. L. A. A. P. D. P., Bayle
Born 18 November 1647 · Died 28 December 1706 · Q214816
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If the Multiplicity of Religions prejudices the State, it proceeds from their not bearing with one another but on the contrary endeavouring each to crush and destroy the other by methods of Persecution. In a word, all the Mischief arises not from Toleration, but from the want of it.
“If the Multiplicity of Religions prejudices the State, it proceeds from their not bearing with one another but on the contrary endeavouring each to crush and destroy the other by methods of Persecution. In a word, all the Mischief arises not from Toleration, but from the want of it.”
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A bench (By Paul Cox) in tribute to Bayle, to reflect on the (hypothetical) philosophical exchange of thought between Bayle and Erasmus
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A street was named after him in Rotterdam
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The graves were relocated to the Crooswijk General Cemetery in Rotterdam
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A statue in his honor was erected at Pamiers, la reparation d'un long oubli ("the reparation of a long neglect")
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Died 1706-12-28.
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Born 1647-11-18.
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