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D'Alembert Jean Le Rond
(1717–1783)

Born in Paris, d'Alembert was the illegitimate child of the writer Claudine Guйrin de Tencin and the chevalier Louis-Camus Destouches (an artillery officer). Destouches was abroad at the time of d'Alembert's birth, and a couple of days after birth his mother left him on the steps of the Saint-Jean-le-Rond de Paris church. According to custom he is... More...

France, 1959, d'Alembert

France, 1959.06.13, Paris. d'Alembert