Claude-François Nonnotte

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Claude-François Nonnotte a.k.a. Claude-Adrien Nonnotte (29 July 1711 - 3 September 1793) was a leading figure in what has been called the Counter-Enlightenment of eighteenth-century France. The Jesuit teacher of grammar, humanities, rhetoric and philosophy is best known for his Dictionnaire philosophique de la religion (1772), or Philosophical Dictionary of religion, an orthodox Catholic riposte to Voltaire's scandalous Philosophical Dictionary, of 1764.

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• Nonnotte, Claude-François. Dictionnaire philosophique de la religion, où l’on établit tous les points de la religion, attaqués par les incrédules, & où l’on répond à toutes leurs objections. Par l’auteur des Erreurs de Voltaire. Paris, 1772.

• Goldzink, Jean. “A propos de trois dictionnaires anti-philosophiques,” Les Cahiers de Fontenay 71-72 (1993) 97-119.

• McMahon, Darrin. Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity. New York: Oxford UP, 2001.