Henri de Boulainvilliers [SEP] place of death
Henri de Boulainvilliers
Henri de Boulainvilliers (; 21 October 1658, Saint-Saire, Normandy – 23 January 1722, Paris) was a French nobleman, writer and historian. He was educated at the college of Juilly, he served in the army until 1697.
Primarily remembered as an early modern historian of the French State, Boulainvilliers also published an early French translation of Spinoza's "Ethics" and wrote on topics as diverse as astrology, physics, philosophy and theology.
The Comte de Boulainvilliers traced his lineage to
this book, he delivers his country to iron and flame; that he cuts the throats of fathers and kidnaps daughters; that he gives to the defeated the choice of his religion or death: this is assuredly nothing any man can excuse, at least if he was not born a Turk, or if superstition has not extinguished all natural light in him."
In 1748, after having read Henri de Boulainvilliers and George Sale, he wrote again about Mohammed and Islam in an article, "De l'Alcoran et de Mahomet