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This week's featured author pages
Pierre Bayle (1647 - 1706) -- French scholar who systematically criticised an enormous scope of religious and philosophical doctrines
John Buridan (1295 - 1360) -- nominalist philosopher of the Middle Ages who was especially concerned about questions of logic and theology
Anatole France (1844 - 1924) -- pseudonym of Jacques Anatole François Thibault; novelist, Nobel laureate
Epicurus (341 - 270) -- a prolific writer, he developed a philosophy which integrated physics and ethics, and founded the Epicurean School
Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850) -- influential author of an immense series of novels which attempted to give a realistic representation of French society in the 18th century
