A Wicked Company

A Wicked Company by Philipp Blom explores the vibrant circle of radical thinkers who gathered in Baron Thierry Holbach’s Paris salon during the 1750s to 1770s, a key period in Western intellectual history. The book traces the lives and ideas of distinguished figures such as Diderot, Rousseau, Hume, and Franklin, whose groundbreaking conversations helped shape a new, humanist French Enlightenment rooted in atheism, reason, and passion. This engaging narrative invites readers to reconsider the foundational debates that continue to influence modern society and its future.