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The "Characters" of Jean de La Bruyère

Note 319 — VI. OF THE GIFTS OF FORTUNE.

Henri Van Laun translation

Libertin, in the original, which first meant a man of free-and-easy manners, came to be chiefly used in the second half of the seventeenth century for a “freethinker.”

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