Without having recourse to any particular insight into the natural "disposition" of "the Dutch people", the author shall rather be concerned with traces of Bayle's presence tout-court, and easy as it may seem to argue that Bayle was at most a minor figure in the Dutch Enlightenment, we shall see that on close inspection most of the evidence pointing to Bayle having remained a foreigner to the Dutch Republic and its cultural and intellectual development during the Enlightenment evaporates.

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van Bunge, W. (2008). The Presence of Bayle in the Dutch Republic. In Wiep van Bunge, Hans Bots (eds.), Pierre Bayle (1646-1706), le philosophe de Rotterdam: Philosophy, Religion and Reception. - Selected Papers of the Tercentenary Conference, held at Rotterdam, 7–8 December 2006. - Leiden, Bosten, Brill, 2008, 197-216 (Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History 167). doi:10.1163/ej.9789004165366.i-279.32