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| | Voltaire |
 | | He, who had been for years admittedly the first writer in France, was at last elected to the Académie française in the spring of 1746. |
 | | His visiting espionage, or secret diplomatic mission, began in the summer of 1722 and he set out for it in company with a certain Madame de Rupelmonde, to whom he, as usual, made love, taught deism and served as an amusing travelling companion. |
 | | He was introduced to the famous "court of Sceaux", the circle of the beautiful and ambitious duchesse du Maine. |
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