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Relation de l’île de Bornéo
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Relation de l’île de Bornéo

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  • Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier, sieur de
    Bernard Le Bovier, sieur de Fontenelle

    …seen in his amusing satire Relation de l’île de Bornéo (1686; “Account of the Island of Borneo”), in which a civil war in Borneo is used to symbolize the dissensions between Catholics (Rome) and Calvinists (Geneva).

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    …seen in his amusing satire Relation de l’île de Bornéo (1686; “Account of the Island of Borneo”), in which a civil war in Borneo is used to symbolize the dissensions between Catholics (Rome) and Calvinists (Geneva).

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