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The flourishing of radical idea in Baron Thierry Holbach's Paris salon from the 1750s to the 1770s stands as a seminal event in American background. Holbach's house was a global epicenter of groundbreaking ideas and intellectual daring, bringing together such original thoughts as Denis Diderot, Laurence Sterne, David Hume, Adam Smith, Ferdinando Galiani, Horace Walpole, Benjamin Franklin, Guillaume Raynal, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. In A Wicked Company, acclaimed historian Philipp Blom retraces the fortunes of this exceptional band of friends. All fantastic minds, packed with wit, courage, and insight, their thinking created a different and radical French Enlightenment predicated on atheism, enthusiasm, reason, and truly humanist thinking. A startlingly relevant work of narrative background, A Wicked Company makes us to confront with new sight the foundational debates about society and its own future.
