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Edward Gibbon
Edward Gibbon, oil painting by Henry Walton, 1774; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
During his time in Paris in 1763, Edward Gibbon made the acquaintance of several French Enlightenment thinkers, known as philosophes, including Denis Diderot and Jean Le Rond dâAlembert.1