The French Christopher Hitchens.

[Brian37]

French author Paul Heinrich Dietrich had the Church of his time scared of him. And so much so no one knows where he was ultimately buried. He is considered to be the father of modern atheism.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Baron_d%27Holbach


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_d%27Holbach

[Napoléon]

Sounds like a cool guy. Shame he's French.

What? I'm not a hypocrite...

[Minimalist]

Twenty years after the death of Luther there were more Catholics than when he was born. And twenty years after the death of Voltaire there were millions less than when he was born.
-- Robert Green Ingersoll

Vive L'France!