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Correspondance de Pierre Bayle

出版	Voltaire Foundation, 1999
主題	Foreign Language Study / FrenchPhilosophy / History & Surveys / ModernReligion / Christianity / Protestant
ISBN	07294097329780729409735
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=MUJAAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋The Huguenot writer, Pierre Bayle (1647-1706) needs little in the way of introduction. Author of the Dictionnaire historique et critique, defender of toleration and indefatigable critic of superstitions of all kinds, Bayle's influence as a man of letters and an unquiet intellectual is substantial and well-documented. Bayle's letters, dating from his early twenties, reveal that he was ever anxious to establish what was then called a 'commerce de lettres' with anyone, but particularly with learned men who could furnish him with news of all kinds: news of battles during Louis XIV's European wars; news of the latest books; news concerning the nobility, the court and the petty nobility of all of the regions of France, but notably of his own county of Foix. Reading Bayle through his letters will reveal his sources of information, his curiosities, his reading, the genesis of some of his ideas, which appear in embryo form in some of the early letters, his griefs and joys, his family ties and intellectual friendships. Thus we will be able to recapture a more in-depth impression of his past, his own time and his intellectual development.