It is traditional in the literature on Pierre Bayle to make some refer- ene e to iVlontaigne as one of the masters of skepticism in whose tracks he follows, albeit hardly so eloselyas Charron had. Time and again critics feel the need to mention Montaigne and Bayle in the same context, sometimes to contrast their brands of Pyrrhonism, more often to explain similarities in their ideas and methods, which have frequent- ly been regarded as important steps in the gradual evolution of un- Christian, even anti-Christian, thought. Their names were already associated during Bayle's life, for example,...