Nicolas Fréret’s (not very) secret thoughts on religion

Although he devoted almost all his intellectual life to the Académie des Inscriptions, Nicolas Fréret was also a clandestine philosopher. Based on a comparison between his writings at the Académie and his Lettre de Thrasybule à Leucippe, this contribution aims to show the unity of his thought on religion. Theses that seem harmless in the context of scholarly works reveal their subversive character when developed in the openly atheist context of the Lettre.