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Julien Offray de La Mettrie

Died on November 11, 1751

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Julien Offray de La Mettrie (French:; 23 November 1709 – 11 November 1751) was a French physician and philosopher, and one of the earliest of the French materialists of the Enlightenment. He is best known for his 1747 work L'homme machine (Man a Machine).

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