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| | 1600s, 17th Century |
 | | These 17th century cabinets, actually room-sized collections, were filled with preserved animals, horns, tusks, skeletons, minerals, and so on. |
 | | In the 19th century it was seen as a social commentary, but no one could easily tell "whose side Cervantes was on". |
 | | It was here in the 18th century that the new liberal philosophy was expounded; this was the cafe of Encyclopedistes, of Diderot, Voltaire, d'Alembert and Benjamin Franklin; the history of the Procope is closely linked with eighteenth century revolutionary ideas. |
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