Pierre Bayle (18 November 1647 - 28 December 1706) was a French philosopher and writer best known for his seminal work the Historical and Critical Dictionary, published beginning in 1695.
Bayle was a self-pronounced Protestant, and as a fideist he advocated a separation between the spheres of faith and reason, on the grounds of God being incomprehensible to man. As a forerunner of the Encyclopedists and an advocate of the principle of the toleration of divergent beliefs, his works subsequently influenced the development of the Enlightenment.
Pierre Bayle was born on November 18, 1647 in Carla-Bayle, Midi-Pyrenees, France. In Cardology (Destiny Cards), November 18, 1647 corresponds to the Two of Clubs, making the Two of Clubs his Birth Card.
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