'La Violence et la mauvaise foi': Context and rhetoric in Pierre Bayle's Ce que c'est que la France toute Catholique

My thesis presents an examination of Ce que c'est que la France toute Catholique (1686) by Pierre Bayle, a prominent figure in the Republic of Letters and the Huguenot Refuge in the seventeenth century. This pamphlet was the first occasional text that Bayle published following the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in which the religious toleration afforded to the Huguenot minority in France was repealed, a pivotal moment in the history of early modern France. In my thesis, I analyse the specific context within which Bayle wrote this pamphlet as a means of addressing a number of issues, including the legitimacy of forced conversions, the impact of the religious controversy upon exchanges in the Republic of Letters, the nature of religious zeal and finally the alliance of Church and state discourses in the early modern period. An examination of this context provides a basis from which to re-interpret the rhetorical strategies at work within the pamphlet, and also to come to an increased understanding of how, why and to what end he wrote it. In turn this allowed me to examine the relationship between this often overlooked pamphlet and the more extensively studied Commentaire Philosophique, in which Bayle argued in favour of religious toleration. Ultimately, understanding the relationship between these two texts proves essential in order to characterise his response to the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes and to understand the place of the pamphlet within his oeuvre. Furthermore, an analysis of the pamphlet and the Commentaire Philosophique provide a lens through which to elucidate both Bayle's intellectual development at this early stage in his career, and also the wider context of the rise of toleration theory and the evolution of modes of civility within the Republic of Letters on the eve of the Enlightenment.

Nouveau dictionnaire historique et critique pour servir de supplement ou de continuation au Dictionnaire historique et critique de Pierre Bayle.

Title vignettes.

Oeuvres diverses de Mr. Pierre Bayle ... : contenant tout ce que cet auteur a publié sur des matieres de Theologie, de Philosophie, de Critique, d'Histoire & de Litterature ... ; tome quatrieme.

Mode of access: Internet.

Oeuvres diverses de Mr. Pierre Bayle ... : contenant tout ce que cet auteur a publié sur des matieres de Theologie, de Philosophie, de Critique, d'Histoire & de Litterature ... ; tome troisieme I. [-II] partie.

Contiene: Partie I: Pensées diverses ecrites à un Docteur de Sorbonne a l'occassion de la comete... ; Addition aux pensées diverses sur les cometes ... ; Continuation des pensées diverses ... -- Partie II: Reponse aux questions d'un provincial ; Reponse pour Mr. Bayle a Mr. Le Clerc...

Examen critique des ouvrages de Bayle.

Con port. propia: "Entretiens sur la raison : suite de la critique des ouvrages de Bayle"

Remarks upon a book, intituled, The fable of the bees, or, Private vices, publick benefits : in a letter to the author : to which is added a postscript containing an observation or two upon Mr. Bayle. /

Signatures: A-G⁸.

Lettres choisies de Mr. Bayle : [publiées par Des Maizeaux] /

Mode of access: Internet.

The dictionary historical and critical of Mr. Peter Bayle.

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Lettres de Mr. Bayle, pub. sur les originaux: avec des remarques:

Bibliographical footnotes.

The dictionary historical and critical of Mr. Peter Bayle.

"Critical remarks upon the new edition of Moreri's historical dictionary [by A. Gaudin and A. de Tricaud] ... With a preface and several observations written by Mr. Bayle," (v. 5, p. [683]-730) first published in Paris, 1706.

Le grande dictionaire historique ou Le mêlange curieux de l'histoire sacrée et profane, qui contient en abregé l'histoire fabuleuse des dieux & des heroes de l'antiquité payenne: les vies et les actions remarquables des patriarches; des juges; des rois des juifs; des papes ... des empereurs; des rois, des princes illustres; & des grands capitaines; l'établissement et le progrés des ordres religieux & militaires; & la vie de leur fondateurs: les genealogies de plusieurs familles illustres de France, & d'autres païs: la description des empires ... l'histoire des conciles generaux & particuliers, sous le nom des lieux où ils ont été tenus. Le tout enrichi de remarques, de dissertations & de recherches curieuses ... tirées de differens auteurs, & sur tout du Dictionaire critique de M. Bayle.

The first edition was published in 1674 in Lyon in 1 vol.

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