1657–1757 · French Enlightenment writer and philosopher
Bernard de Fontenelle
Bernard de Fontenelle was a French writer and philosopher, born in Rouen in 1657.
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Bernard de Fontenelle was a French writer and philosopher, born in Rouen in 1657. He later lived in Paris, where he died in 1757. He published Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds in 1686 and served as secretary of the French Academy of Sciences from 1697 to 1740.
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- 1657
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- 1757
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