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Bayle

[beyl]
–noun
Pierre [pyer] , 1647–1706, French philosopher and critic.
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Bayle   (bāl, běl)   
French philosopher and critic. Considered the progenitor of 18th-century rationalism, he compiled the famous Dictionnaire historique et critique (1697) and championed the cause of religious tolerance.
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