# Descartes lives in the Dutch Republic as a dated publishing exile, not a unique tourist coefficient and not a French chair

Date: 1629

## The fact

From the late 1620s Descartes lived in the Dutch Republic as a dated publishing exile. It is not a unique tourist coefficient and not a French university chair. René Descartes's documented role is: He left France for the United Provinces and published from there. He did not hold a Dutch magistracy. High confidence on the residence.

## Context

Beeckman is an early Dutch counterpart. Sharing unnamed Dutch printers is required. Queen Christina's later call is a different move. The setting of Descartes lives in the Dutch Republic as a dated publishing exile, not a unique tourist coefficient and not a French chair is the public file around 1629-01-01. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [forced-displacement-scale](/drivers/forced-displacement-scale) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not store later tourism as 1629. The 1637 Discourse is a neighbouring Dutch imprint. Mixed effects of Descartes lives in the Dutch Republic as a dated publishing exile, not a unique tourist coefficient and not a French chair are separate paths.

## Evidence and sources

Official locator: Britannica — René Descartes, residence in the Netherlands at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Rene-Descartes (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent locator: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Descartes, Dutch years at https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/descartes/ (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Official carrier: Britannica — René Descartes, residence in the Netherlands (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Rene-Descartes; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Descartes, Dutch years (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/descartes/; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy).

Official or archival record: Britannica — René Descartes, residence in the Netherlands (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Rene-Descartes; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

Worsening path from Descartes lives in the Dutch Republic as a dated publishing exile, not a unique tourist coefficient and not a French chair on 1629-01-01. A long foreign residence for publishing safety is a displacement path of medium weight: chosen exile, still exile. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.

The attached driver is forced-displacement-scale. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a sourced public record of Descartes lives in the Dutch Republic as a dated publishing exile, not a unique tourist coefficient and not a French chair under 1629-01-01 for René Descartes. Established: a sourced public record of Descartes lives in the Dutch Republic as a dated publishing exile, not a unique tourist coefficient and not a French chair under 1629-01-01.

Shared responsibility is part of Descartes lives in the Dutch Republic as a dated publishing exile, not a unique tourist coefficient and not a French chair. Naming René Descartes does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1629-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

## People

- René Descartes: https://factrail.ai/people/rene-descartes

## Drivers

- Forced-Displacement Scale: https://factrail.ai/drivers/forced-displacement-scale

## Sources

- https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/descartes/
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Rene-Descartes

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/des-dutch-exile