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How One of the Most Famous Philosophers in History Made His Fortune by Rigging the Lottery (2019x192)
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While history knows him as a great Enlightenment thinker and writer, Voltaire was once Francois-Marie Arouet, the charismatic and rebellious youngest son of an upper middle-class French family. (His father was a minor treasury official and his mother from a low-ranking noble family.
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