Vie de Voltaire

work by Condorcet

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In Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
Turgot in 1786 and his Vie de Voltaire in 1789. Those biographies of his friends reveal his sympathy with Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot’s economic theories about mitigating the suffering of the French populace before the French Revolution and with Voltaire’s opposition to the church. Both works were widely and eagerly read and…
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