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Abbe Trublet is known to have been an admirer and the historiographer of Fontenelle and Houdar de la Motte. In his Memoires about them, as well as in all his works of criticism, he assumes a radical empiricism, despising any overall plan and accumulating precise details which contribute to a general interpretation. When it came to religion, he was not concerned with abstract proofs or theological systems and was certainly closer to the Jesuits than to the Jansenists, defending an extremely liberal Christianity which absorbed apparently alien philosophies. Thus he re-christianised Fontenelle, Montesquieu and even Voltaire ; only La Mettrie was beyond recuperation.
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Abbe Trublet is known to have been an admirer and the historiographer of Fontenelle and Houdar de la Motte. In his Memoires about them, as well as in all his works of criticism, he assumes a radical empiricism, despising any overall plan and accumulating precise details which contribute to a general interpretation. When it came to religion, he was not concerned with abstract proofs or theological systems and was certainly closer to the Jesuits than to the Jansenists, defending an extremely liberal Christianity which absorbed apparently alien philosophies. Thus he re-christianised Fontenelle, Montesquieu and even Voltaire ; only La Mettrie was beyond recuperation.
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