# Pierre Bayle

> A Huguenot refugee who published a dictionary so dangerous he buried his best arguments in the footnotes. Leibniz wrote a book to refute him, Voltaire called him the greatest dialectician who ever lived, and Jefferson put the English translation in the Library of Congress's founding collection.

*French philosopher and writer (1647–1706)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Country:** France
- **Born:** 1647-11-18
- **Died:** 1706-12-28
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Pierre Bayle was born 18 November 1647 in France, a Huguenot in a kingdom that would soon make that faith untenable. In 1681 he fled religious persecution for the Dutch Republic. From exile he began publishing his Historical and Critical Dictionary in 1697, a work that hid its most controversial ideas in sprawling footnotes or tucked them into articles on safe-seeming topics. His skeptical philosophy and his case for religious toleration fed directly into the Enlightenment—so much so that he's considered a forerunner of the Encyclopédistes a generation later. He died 28 December 1706, having shaped the terms of the argument that followed.

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