Etienne DoletIn existographies, Etienne Dolet (1509-1546) (FA:33) was a French humanist, materialist, scholar, translator, printer, and rumored atheist, noted for []

Overview
Dolet frequented the intellectual salon of Margaret of Navarre. [1]

In the 1535, Dolet rumored to be a “materialist” and to deny the immortality of the soul (Ѻ).

In the years to follow, after being imprisoned several times, he was eventually convicted of heresy and burned with his books due to the combined efforts of the parliament of Paris, the Inquisition, and the theological faculty of the Sorbonne. Alternatively, as some have reported, he was convicted of the “crime” of atheism, tortured, strangled, and then burned, with his books:

Dolet has been classified as one of the first martyrs of the renaissance. [2]

Etienne Dolet (burning) s
An engraving of Dolet (1546) being burned with his books.
Quotes | On
The following are quotes on Dolet:

“Sneer away, you ape of Lucian. To deny the existence of god in heaven who wished his son to die for the salvation of men, to deny the last judgment and punishment of hell—this is madness.”
— Anon (c.1535), a contemporary of Dolet [1]

Quotes | By
The following are quotes by Dolet:

“Death? Let us not fear its blows. It will either grant us to be without feeling or it will allow us to enter a better world and a happy state—unless our hope of Elysium is entirely groundless.”
— Etienne Dolet (c.1535) [1]

References
1. Hecht, Jennifer M. (2003). Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas (pg. 278-80). HarperOne.
2. Christie, Richard C. (1899). Etienne Dolet: the Martyr of the Renaissance, 1508-1546 (atheism, pg. 478). Publisher.

External links
● Etienne Dolet – Wikipedia.

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