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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1706.
Daniel Defoe was an English novelist, journalist, merchant, pamphleteer and spy. He is most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe, published in 1719, which is claimed to be second only to the Bible in its number of translations. He has been seen as one of the earliest proponents of the English novel, and helped to popularise the form in Britain with others such as Aphra Behn and Samuel Richardson. Defoe wrote many political tracts, was often in trouble with the authorities, and spent a period in prison. Intellectuals and political leaders paid attention to his fresh ideas and sometimes consulted him.
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1722.
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1700.
Events from the year 1703 in literature.
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1702.
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1704.
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1705.
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Pierre Bayle was a French philosopher, author, and lexicographer. He is best known for his Historical and Critical Dictionary, whose publication began in 1697. Many of the more controversial ideas in the book were hidden away in the voluminous footnotes, or they were slipped into articles on seemingly uncontroversial topics. Bayle is commonly regarded as a forerunner of the Encyclopédistes of the mid-18th century. He, like many other European philosophers of his era, was influenced by the writings of the Muslim philosopher Ibn Tufayl.
The Dictionnaire Historique et Critique was a French biographical dictionary written by Pierre Bayle (1647–1706), a Huguenot philosopher who lived and published in Rotterdam, in the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands, after fleeing his native France due to religious persecution. In 1689, Bayle began making notes on errors and omissions in Louis Moreri's Grand Dictionaire historique (1674), a previous encyclopedia, and these notes ultimately developed into his own Dictionnaire.
Events from the year 1704 in England.
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Pierre des Maizeaux, also spelled Desmaizeaux, was a French Huguenot writer exiled in London, best known as the translator and biographer of Pierre Bayle.
Events from the year 1702 in England. This year sees a change of monarch.
Events from the year 1706 in England.
Events from the year 1692 in England.
Events from the year 1706 in France