biography
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Holbach, Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d'
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originally Paul Heinrich Dietrich
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pronunciation:
[holbak]
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| lived:
| (1723–89)
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| biography:
| French philosopher and intellectual, born in the Palatinate. He took French nationality in 1749 and became one of the leading thinkers of the French Enlightenment. His salon in Paris was an important meeting place for many of the intellects of the time, including Diderot, d'Alembert, and Rousseau. Anti-Christian and anti-clerical, he was leader of an atheist group called les philosophes. He contributed many articles to the Encyclopédie, although his best-known work is Système de la Nature (1770) which explains his radical materialist philosophy. |
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