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Who raised Jean Le Rond dâAlembert after he was abandoned as an infant?
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Jean Le Rond dâAlembert
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert.
After being abandoned on the steps of the church of Saint-Jean-le-Rond as an infant, Jean Le Rond dâAlembert was entrusted by his father, the chevalier Destouches-Canon, to the wife of a glazier. DâAlembert grew up with this woman and always treated her as his mother.1