Baron d'Holbach

Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d'Holbach, was a French-German philosopher, encyclopedist, writer, and prominent figure in the French Enlightenment. He was born Paul Heinrich Dietrich in Edesheim, near Landau in the Rhenish Palatinate, but lived and worked mainly in Paris, where he kept a salon. He was well known for his atheism and for his voluminous writings against religion, the most famous of them being The System of Nature (1770) and The Universal Morality (1776).

The System of Nature

The System of Nature or, the Laws of the Moral and Physical World is a work of philosophy by Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d'Holbach (1723–1789

Jacques-André Naigeon

Jacques-André Naigeon was a French artist, atheist–materialist philosopher, editor and man of letters best known for his contributions to the Encyclopédie and for reworking Baron d'Holbach's and Diderot's manuscripts

Augustin Roux

Augustin Roux was a French doctor, encyclopedist and man of letters during the Age of Enlightenment

Nicolas La Grange

Nicolas La Grange (1707–1775) was a French playwright and translator, notable for his 1768 translation of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura and for several plays

Claude Adrien Helvétius

Claude Adrien Helvétius was a French philosopher, freemason and littérateur

Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Suard

Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Suard was a French journalist, translator and man of letters during the Age of Enlightenment. He was born in Besançon and died in Paris

D'Holbach's Coterie

D'Holbach's Coterie was a group of radical French Enlightenment thinkers who met regularly at the salon of the atheist philosophe Baron d'Holbach in the years approximately 1750–1780. An enormously wealthy man, the Baron used his wealth to maintain one

Charles-Georges Le Roy

Charles-Georges Le Roy or Leroy was a French man of letters during the Age of Enlightenment and the author of one of the first books on human behaviour

Conversation with the Marèchale de ***

Conversation with the Maréchale de *** is a 1774 essay by Denis Diderot containing a friendly dialogue, of a disputatious nature, between a religious lady and a freethinker, on theological issues. The content of the dialogue is polemical, but its tone

Martinj Hrib

Martinj Hrib is a former village in western Slovenia in the Municipality of Logatec. It is now part of the town of Logatec. It is part of the traditional region of Inner Carniola and is now included in the Central Slovenia Statistical Region