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Les Ormes - Château
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Count Marc-Pierre d’Argenson lived here, after he was dismissed by Louis XV and exiled from Paris in 1757. He was a friend of Voltaire and strong supporter of the "Encyclopédistes". Diderot and d’Alembert dedicated the first volume of the "Encyclopédie" to him.
Only about 10kms east of Les Ormes philosopher and mathematician René Descartes ("Cogito ergo sum") was born in 1596. La Haye en Touraine was the name of the town at that time. Meanwhile it is renamed to Descartes.
Only about 10kms east of Les Ormes philosopher and mathematician René Descartes ("Cogito ergo sum") was born in 1596. La Haye en Touraine was the name of the town at that time. Meanwhile it is renamed to Descartes.
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