Paul-Henri Thiry Baron d’Holbach (French: [dɔlbak]; was a French-German author philosopher encyclopedist and a 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).
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