Jean Meslier (French: [melje]; also Mellier; 15 June 1664 – 17 June 1729) was a French Catholic priest (abbé) who was discovered, upon his death, to have...

Meslier is originally a French surname, and can refer to the following: People: Jean Meslier (1664–1729), Catholic priest who was discovered after his...

book In Defense of Atheism (2007), Michel Onfray describes the priest Jean Meslier as the first person to write an entire text in support of atheism: For...

dispatched his heroes to a fictional country located near South Africa. Jean Meslier, the writer of Memoire, composed the first atheistic manifesto in modern...

René Ménil Maurice Merleau-Ponty Marin Mersenne Jean Meslier Régis Messac Émile Meyerson Gaston Milhaud Jean-Claude Milner Victor Riqueti de Mirabeau Robert...

Jean Meslier (1664–1729), whose posthumously published lengthy philosophical essay (part of the original title: Thoughts and Feelings of Jean Meslier...

philosopher Jean Meslier praised him as freedom fighter against tyranny. Jacques Clément, who assassinated King Henry III of France in 1589. Jean Châtel,...

explain sufficiently why he was executed, but his disciples were not. Jean Meslier (1664–1729) had similar thoughts in the 18th century. In chapters 33...

Hitchens Baron d'Holbach Lawrence Krauss Michael Lou Martin Karl Marx Jean Meslier Friedrich Nietzsche Michel Onfray Bertrand Russell Peter Singer Victor...

resonance with à rouer ("to be beaten up") and roué (a débauché). In a letter to Jean-Baptiste Rousseau in March 1719, Voltaire concludes by asking that, if Rousseau...