Permanent historical factsheet

Exile from France

France · Humanities / Philosophy. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

1Records
1746Date range
1Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1746

Julien Offray de La Mettrie1746

Leiden · Humanities / Philosophy

Controversy surrounding his medical satires and materialist philosophy leads La Mettrie to leave France.

Names involved

Julien Offray de La Mettrie

Provenance

This factsheet is generated from stored World History Database records matching the country, broad category, detailed category and exact Event value shown above. Duplicate display records are collapsed; database wording is otherwise preserved. Source provenance varies by record, so formal academic citation should be checked against the relevant primary source, archive or specialist historical reference.