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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in the Rhenish Palatinate in 1723, Paul Thiry moved to Paris and built a salon that became a nerve center for Enlightenment thought, funneling German and Protestant ideas into French intellectual life. He contributed to the Encyclopédie and championed scientific inquiry, but his real project was demolition: a systematic, voluminous assault on religion from every angle. In 1770 he published The System of Nature, a materialist manifesto that denied God, soul, and afterlife in language so uncompromising it scandalized even fellow philosophes. The Universal Morality followed in 1776, arguing ethics needed no divine anchor. He died in Paris in 1789, the year the old order he'd spent decades undermining finally collapsed.