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    The Dictionnaire philosophique (Philosophical Dictionary) is an encyclopedic dictionary published by the Enlightenment thinker Voltaire in 1764. The alphabetically...
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    he published one of his best-known philosophical works, the Dictionnaire philosophique, a series of articles mainly on Christian history and dogmas,...
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    include the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus by Baruch Spinoza, the Dictionnaire philosophique of Voltaire, the Encyclopédie of Denis Diderot and The Age of...
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  • Ponte asked him for help translating volume one of Voltaire's Dictionnaire Philosophique. Even though Pacheco was paid in advance for the job, he missed...
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    Publishers. ISBN 0-8057-8085-8. McGhee, Dorothy M. (1943). "The "Conte Philosophique" Bridging a Century". PMLA. 58 (2). Modern Language Association: 438–449...
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    Biche, one of his Italian Greyhounds, as his best friend. In his Dictionnaire philosophique (1764), Voltaire wrote: CHIEN. — Il semble que la nature ait donné...
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    France over three nights. Voltaire mentioned the practice in his Dictionnaire philosophique, published in 1764. He wrote the five-act comedy Le droit du seigneur...
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    and Contributors, p. 260 Voltaire (1954). "Liberté de penser". Dictionnaire philosophique. Classiques Garnier (in French). Paris: Éditions Garnier. pp. 277–81...
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  • a fanatical gang at their heels". Later, in an entry for his Dictionnaire philosophique (1772), Voltaire again portrayed Hypatia as a freethinking deistic...
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    the parasitic ancien régime. In his entry for "Vampires" in the Dictionnaire philosophique (1764), Voltaire notices how the mid-18th century coincided with...
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