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he “sowed dragon’s teeth.”48 Where he walked in feigned discourse with his imaginary Marquise, the army of the Enlightenment would rise with the dashing light horse of Voltaire, the heavy infantry of d’Holbach, the sappers of the Encyclopédie, and the artillery of Diderot.
The Age of Louis XIV: The Story of Civilization, Volume VIII
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