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Summary This is the first English translation of Pierre Bayle's political pamphlet, Ce que c'est que la France toute catholique of 1686. Now that Bayle has received renewed attention from scholars such as Jonathan Israel and Gianluca Mori, it is time to introduce his political ideas to English-speaking readers who cannot read the original. And although a selection of the political writings from the Historical and Critical Dictionary has been published, much of Bayle's political thought has not been translated. This translation complements recent editions of Bayle's Thoughts on the Comet and Philosophical Commentary, along with a forthcoming translation of his Conversations Between Maxime and Themiste. A substantial introduction explores the context and reviews scholarly interpretations, and notes to the text explain references.

Confrontant le projet metaphysique des «Dialogues entre Hylas et Philonous» au sceptisme dogmatique des «Recherches sur l'entendement humain», l'A. decrit un dialogue imaginaire entre Berkeley et Hume, traitant de l'idealisme et de la religion, du dualisme esprit-corps, des qualites sensibles et de l'entendement, de la perception et des sensations, des idees et des erreurs, de l'experience et de la causalite, de la nature et du realisme.