All his life he was a hedonist or an Epicurean, in the properly philosophical sense of the term.
He was born, at a time when the Rhône then separated France from Savoy, into a bourgeois family which, from father to son, served France in the magistracy. He studied law, chemistry and medicine in Dijon and then moved to his city...
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