Word: mirabeau
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...young politician had, said a friend,"a calm expression, a penetrating blue eye -- and looked like a thinking man." He studied Locke and Hume, thought deeply about political philosophy, became a protege of Jefferson's. The author of the Declaration of Independence sent him books from Paris: Voltaire, Diderot, Mirabeau. Madison sent back grafts of native American plants: pecans, cranberries...