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The philosophes desired freedom of thought in religion, constitutional liberty, and the abolition of privilege of all kinds.
It is a violent case of prejudice, this ordinary appeal of Bossuet, 'Qu'ont gagné les philosophes avec leurs discours pompeux?'
He pours out his contempt on the Parisian philosophes who idealized primitive man and natural virtue.
The literary world is divided into three corresponding classes—rudits, philosophes and beaux esprits.
In France it was lauded by the philosophes, while it was scouted by the medical faculty.
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