Pierre Bayle was one of the most important thinkers of the seventeeth century .His word was a major influence on the development of the ideas of,Hume,Montesquieu and Rousseau.Banned in France on first publication in 1697. Bavle's Dictionnaire Historque et Critique became a bestseller and ran into several editions and nslations.Sally L.Jenkinson's masterly new edition presents the reader with a coherent path through Bayle's monumental word .This is the first volume in English to select political writings from Bayle's word and to present is author as a specifcally thinder thinder.Sally L.Jenkinson will be welcomed by scholars and students of the history of ideas，political theory,cultural history and French studies.

本丛书囊括了所有著名的经典原著，但与此同时，它又扩展了传统的评价尺度，以便能够纳入范围广泛、不那么出名的作品。每一本书都有一个评论性的导言，加上历史年表、生平梗概、进一步阅读指南，以及必要的词汇表和原文注解。

Ackcowledgements

A note on the translation

List of abbreviations

Introduction:a defence of justice and freedom

Chronlogy

From Bayle's Dictionnaire historique et cirtique

Bodin

Brutus

David

Elizabeth

Gregory

Hobbes

De I'Hopital

Hotman

Japan

Juno

Loyola

Machiavelli

Machiavelli

Macon

Mariana

Navarre

Nicole

Ovid