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Voltaire

French Enlightenment writer, mentioned as a skeptic and wit.

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First appearance: iv montaigne or the skeptic

Voltaire shows up with force in VII: Goethe; or, the Writer. The page is where that presence becomes real.

Listed among the grandees of European scientific history that Goethe rapidly notes in his works.
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