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Helvétius
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- Claude-Adrien Helvétius
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1715-1771
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Claude Adrien Helvetius, born 1715 in Paris, was a French philosopher. He studied at the College Louis-le Grand, and in 1738 received the lucrative post of farmer-general, which, however, he soon exchanged for the position of chamberlain to the queen. Tiring of the idle and dissipated life of the court, he married in 1751, and retired to a small estate at Vore, in Perche, where he devoted himself chiefly to philosophical studies. He was one of the "Encyclopaedists," and held the skeptical and materialistic views common to that school of philosophy.
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Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto