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(Émile, IV, “Profession de foi du vicaire savoyard,” 1762).
IDEA OF GOD, 1400-1800 JAMES COLLINS 1968
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Footnote: The passage is known as "Profession de Foi du Vicaire savoyard" and is found in the fourth book of _Émile_, _Oeuvres_, iv.
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It is good, "wrote Voltaire," that the brethren should know that yesterday six hundred persons came, for the third time, to protest on behalf of Jean Jacques against the Council of Geneva, which had dared to condemn the Vicaire savoyard. "
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 1830
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