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.