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He was born atWorks
His works were very numerous. In some of them he took a strong critical line with mythological and counterfeit material current as fact in the early modern period. This brought him the admiration of major Enlightenment intellectuals....the real work of discrediting and disposing of the '' Oracula Sibyllina'', Chaldean chronicles, andIn his dissertation onOrphic hymns Orpheus (; Ancient Greek: Ὀρφεύς, classical pronunciation: ; french: Orphée) is a Thracian bard, legendary musician and prophet in ancient Greek religion. He was also a renowned poet and, according to the legend, travelled with Jason ..., ... seemingly only began, asDiderot Denis Diderot (; ; 5 October 171331 July 1784) was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer, best known for serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the ''Encyclopédie'' along with Jean le Rond d'Alembert. He was a prominen ...noted in 1751, in the 1650s when the Huguenot scholar David Blondel ... published his treatise on the ''Oracula'' in Amsterdam.
She was annihilated by two learned protestants, Blondel and Bayle ../blockquote> Indignation against him on account of this book came from Protestant polemicists. His 1628 book against Francisco Torres conclusively demonstrated that the ''Pseudo-Isidorian Decretals'' were a very learned forgery. This work was praised byVoltaire François-Marie Arouet (; 21 November 169430 May 1778) was a French Age of Enlightenment, Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher. Known by his ''Pen name, nom de plume'' M. de Voltaire (; also ; ), he was famous for his wit, and his ..., writing in his ''Dictionnaire Philosophique The (''Philosophical Dictionary'') is an encyclopedic dictionary published by the Enlightenment thinker Voltaire in 1764. The alphabetically arranged articles often criticize the Roman Catholic Church, Judaism, Islam, and other institutions. T ...''. Blondel tracked down sources actually used by thePseudo-Isidore Pseudo-Isidore is the conventional name for the unknown Carolingian-era author (or authors) behind an extensive corpus of influential forgery, forgeries. Pseudo-Isidore's main object was to provide accused bishops with an array of legal protectio .... Later scholarship has sustained his conclusions. In a work written as he was going blind, he struck back againstJean-Jacques Chifflet Jean-Jacques Chifflet (Chiflet) (Besançon, 1588–1660) was a physician, jurist, antiquarian and archaeologist originally from the County of Burgundy (now in France). Life He visited Paris and Montpellier, and travelled in Italy and Germany. ..., who had written in favour of the Spanish royal family's genealogical claims, over those of the French kings. In 1655 he produced an anthology of extracts arguing for Protestanteirenicism Irenicism in Christian theology refers to attempts to unify Christian apologetical systems by using reason as an essential attribute. The word is derived from the Greek word ''ειρήνη (eirene)'' meaning peace. It is a concept related to a comm ...''Actes authentiques des eglises reformées de France, Germanie, Grande Bretaigne, Pologne,Hongrie, Païs Bas, &c. touchant la paix & charité fraternelle, Amsterdam 1655''
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Blondel, David 1591 births 1655 deaths People from Châlons-en-Champagne French Calvinist and Reformed ministers French Calvinist and Reformed theologians Huguenots French historiographers 17th-century Calvinist and Reformed theologians 17th-century French theologians
