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== Additional encyclopedia biography of Paul-Henri Thiry ==

== Additional encyclopedia biography of Paul-Henri Thiry ==

[[File:Paul-Henri Thiry portrait.jpg|thumbnail|right|200px|Painting of by the Swedish painter Alexander Roslin (1718–1793)}}

[[File:Paul-Henri Thiry portrait.jpg|thumbnail|right|200px|Painting of by the Swedish painter Alexander Roslin (1718–1793)]]

Encylopedia.com provides a short biography of Paul-Henri Thiry which indicates:

Encylopedia.com provides a short biography of Paul-Henri Thiry which indicates:

{{Cquote|Born in December 1723 in Edesheim not far from Karlsruhe in the Palatinate, Paul Henri Thiry was baptized a [[Roman Catholicism|Roman Catholic]]. When he was 12 years old, his father took him to an ennobled and financially successful uncle, Franciscus Adam d'Holbach, a naturalized Frenchman living in [[Paris]]. From him the young Thiry received his upbringing, a fortune, and a new surname. After an early education in Paris, Paul Henri d'Holbach went in 1744 to the [[university]] at Leiden. By 1749 the young man had returned to France and become naturalized, and in 1753 he inherited his uncle's title and fortune.

{{Cquote|Born in December 1723 in Edesheim not far from Karlsruhe in the Palatinate, Paul Henri Thiry was baptized a [[Roman Catholicism|Roman Catholic]]. When he was 12 years old, his father took him to an ennobled and financially successful uncle, Franciscus Adam d'Holbach, a naturalized Frenchman living in [[Paris]]. From him the young Thiry received his upbringing, a fortune, and a new surname. After an early education in Paris, Paul Henri d'Holbach went in 1744 to the [[university]] at Leiden. By 1749 the young man had returned to France and become naturalized, and in 1753 he inherited his uncle's title and fortune.