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Paul-Henri Dietrich, baron d’Holbach: Quick Facts

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Also Known As Paul-Henri Dietrich
Born December 1723 ‱ Germany
Died June 21, 1789 (aged 65) ‱ Paris ‱ France
Notable Works “System of Nature”
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Jean Le Rond d'Alembert.
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Roger Bacon
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Ibn al-ÊżArabÄ«
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Giovanni Gentile
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Bar Hebraeus
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Hugh of Saint-Victor, undated engraving.
Hugh of Saint-Victor
French theologian
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Abraham bar Hiyya
Spanish-Jewish philosopher and scientist
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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René Descartes
René Descartes
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Voltaire
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Gabriel Marcel
Gabriel Marcel
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Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
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French philosopher Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
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René Girard
René Girard
French-born literary critic and scholar
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Wassily Kandinsky
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Henri Bergson
Henri Bergson
French philosopher
Auguste Comte
Auguste Comte
French philosopher
Taine, portrait by LĂ©on Bonnat, 1889
Hippolyte Taine
French critic and historian

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