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Jean-François Hénault

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    …Marquise de Lambert, Voltaire, and Jean-François Hénault, president of the Parlement of Paris, with whom she lived on intimate if not always friendly terms until his death in 1770. When she set up her own salon, she attracted scientists, writers, wits, and all who were of any consequence in the…

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