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  • 131ROYER-COLLARD, PIERRE PAUL —    politician and philosopher, born at Sompuis; called to the Paris bar at 20; supported the Revolution, but refused to follow the Jacobins, and during the Reign of Terror sought shelter in his native town; was elected to the Council of the Five… …

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  • 132visionary — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. idealistic, unpractical, quixotic, Utopian; imaginary, delusory, chimerical. n. dreamer, idealist, theorist, theorizer. See imagination, heterodoxy, nonexistence. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1.… …

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