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D'Holbach's Coterie (la coterie
holbachique was the phrase coined by Jean-Jacques Rousseau) was a
group of radical French
Enlightenment thinkers who met regularly at the salon
of the atheist philosophe Baron
d'Holbach in the years approximately 1750–1780. An enormously
wealthy man, the Baron used his wealth to maintain one of the more
notable and lavish Parisian salons, which soon became an important
meeting place for the contributors to the Encyclopédie. Meetings were held
regularly twice a week, on Sundays and Thursdays, in d'Holbach's
home in rue Royale, butte Saint-Roche. Visitors to the salon were
exclusively males, and the tone of discussion high-brow, extending
to topics more extensive and often more radical and subversive than
those of other salons.[1] This,
along with the excellent food, expensive wine, and a library of
over 3000 volumes, attracted many notable visitors. Among the
regulars in attendance at the salon were the following: Diderot, Grimm, Condillac, Condorcet, D'Alembert Marmontel, Turgot, La Condamine, Raynal Helvétius, Galiani, Morellet, Naigeon and, for a time, Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The salon
was also well-frequented by British intellectuals, amongst them Adam Smith, David Hume, John Wilkes, Horace Walpole and Edward Gibbon.
References
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For an in-depth discussion of d'Holbach's "coterie", see Alan
Charles Kors, D'Holbach's Coterie: An Enlightenment in
Paris (Princeton University Press, 1976)
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