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en-wikipedia-org-2525		Pierre Bayle - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	2731	410	64	Berkeley, Condorcet, Diderot, Frederick the Great, Gibbon, Hume, des Maizeaux, Mandeville, Maupertuis, Toland, Vico, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau He is best known for his Historical and Critical Dictionary, whose publication began in 1697.[3] A Huguenot, Bayle fled to the Dutch Republic in 1681 because of religious persecution in France. The English translation of The Dictionary, by Bayle's fellow Huguenot exile Pierre des Maizeaux, was identified by American President Thomas Jefferson to be among the one hundred foundational texts to form the first collection of the Library of Congress. Richard Popkin has advanced the view that Pierre Bayle was a skeptic who used the Historical and Critical Dictionary to criticise all prior known theories and philosophies. Bayle was critical of many influential rationalists, such as René Descartes, Thomas Hobbes, Baruch Spinoza, Nicolas Malebranche and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.[7] An Historical and Critical Dictionary, Volume 3 Pierre Bayle An Historical and Critical Dictionary, Volume 3 Pierre Bayle	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2525.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2525.txt