* Aymon (Jean). La vie et L’Esprit de M. Benoit Spinoza (La Haye, 1719) was afterwards issued under the famous title Treatise of Three Impostors.
* Bahrdt (Karl Friedrich). The writings of this enfant terrible of the German Aufklarung fill 120 volumes.
* Bailey (William Shreeve) was born 10 Feb. 1806. He suffered much on account of his opinions. Died Nashville, 20 Feb 1886. Photius Fisk erected a monument to his memory.
* Bancel (Francis Désiré). In his work Les Harangues de l’Exil, 3 vols., 1863, his Freethought views are displayed. He also wrote in La Revue Critique.
Barnaud (Nicolas), of Crest in Dauphiné. Lived during the latter half of the sixteenth century. He travelled in France, Spain, and Germany, and to him is attributed the authorship of a curious work entitled Le Cabinet du Roy de France, which is largely directed against the clergy.
Barreaux. See [des Barreaux].
Barth (Ferdinand), b. Mureck, Steyermark Austria, 1828. In ’48 he attained reputation as orator to working men and took part in the revolution. When Vienna was retaken he went to Leipzig and Zurich, where he died in 1850, leaving a profession of his freethought.
Bartrina, Spanish Atheistic poet, b. Barcelona, 1852, where he died in 1880.
Bedingfield (Richard, W. T.), Pantheistic writer, b. May, 1823, wrote in National Reformer as B.T.W.R., established Freelight, ’70. Died 14 Feb. 1876.
* Berigardus (Claudius), b. 15 Aug. 1578.