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He knew all people of the Enlightenment;
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Voltaire, one of the big troublemakers of his time.
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He supported Diderot and the project of Encyclopédie,
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which was unusual
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because royal authority did not really like this one.
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Well let me just give you a little ethnography,
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if you are interested:
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Les Liaisons dangereuses.
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Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
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wrote a novel about the sexual mores of this time,
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which is called The Dangerous Relationships.
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Well there was two movies made of it.