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Adrien Baillet
1706Jan, 21

Adrien Baillet

Adrien Baillet, French scholar and critic (b. 1649)
Adrien Baillet (13 June 1649 – 21 January 1706) was a French scholar and critic. He is now best known as a biographer of René Descartes.

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