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Diderot, Denis. Les Eleutheromanes. 1772.

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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Du contrat social; ou Principes du droit politique [The Social Contract]. 1762.

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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. "Of the Social Contract." Of the Social Contract and Other Political Writings. Translated by Quintin Hoare. Penguin, 2012.

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Descartes, René. Discours de la Méthode Pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la vérité dans les sciences. 1637, pt. 4.

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Descartes, René. Discourse on the Method. Translated by Ian Maclean. Oxford UP, 2008, pt. 4.

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Sartre, Jean Paul. Le etre et le neant: Essai d'ontologie phenomenologique [Being and Nothingness]. Editions Galllimard, 1943, pt. 4, ch. 1, sect. 1.

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Sartre, Jean Paul. Being and Nothingness. Translated by Sarah Richmond. Washington Square P, 2021, pt. 4, ch. 1, sect. 1.

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Hugo, Victor. "La Chute [Conclusion]." Histoire d'un crime, 2eme partie [History of a Crime, part 2]. 1878, ch. 10.

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Bonaparte, Napoleon. Quoted in History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution in 1789 to the Restoration of the Bourbons in 1815, Volume 5 by Archibald Alison. 1836.

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Voltaire. Candide. Cramer, 1759, ch. 6.

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Voltaire. Candide. Translated by Robert M. Adams. Edited by Nicholas Cronk. W. W. Norton & Co., 2016, ch. 6.

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Voltaire. Candide, ou l'Optimisme [Candide, or the Optimist]. 1759, ch. 1.

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Voltaire. Candide. Edited by Nicholas Cronk. Translated by Robert M. Adams. W. W. Norton & Company, 2016, ch. 1.

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Pascal, Blaise. Pensées. 1662, no. 277.

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Pascal, Blaise. Pensées. Translated by A. J. Krailsheimer. Penguin, 1995, no. 277.

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Pascal, Blaise. Pensées. 1662, no. 895.

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Pascal, Blaise. Pensées. Translated by A. J. Krailsheimer. Penguin, 1995, no. 895.

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Voltaire. "Épître à l'Auteur du Livre des Trois Imposteurs." 1770, www.whitman.edu/VSA/trois.imposteurs.html#english

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Camus, Albert. The Rebel [L'Homme révolté]. 1951.

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Camus, Albert. The Rebel. Translated by Anthony Bower. Vintage, 1992.

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Camus, Albert. L'Homme révolté [The Rebel]. 1951.

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Camus, Albert. The Rebel. Translated by Anthony Bower. Vintage, 1992.

A house is a machine for living in.

Le Corbusier

Toward an Architecture

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Le Corbusier. Vers une Architecture. 1923.

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Le Corbusier. Toward an Architecture. Getty Research Institute, 2007.

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Sartre, Jean Paul. Huis-clos [No Exit]. 1944, act 1, sc. 5.

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Sarte, Jean Paul. "No Exit." No Exit and Three Other Plays. Vintage, 1989, act 1, sc. 5.

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Flaubert, Gustave. "Letter to Mademoiselle Leroyer de Chantepie," in Letters of Gustave Flaubert, ed. Richard Rumbold, trans. J. M. Cohen (London: George Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1950), 104.

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De Gaulle, Charles. Quoted in Les Mots du General. Written by Ernest Mignon. 1962.

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Pascal, Blaise. Pensées. 1662, no. 229

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Pascal, Blaise. Pensées. Translated by A. J. Krailsheimer. Penguin, 1995, no. 229.

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Pascal, Blaise. Pensees [Thoughts]. 1670, pt. 21, no. 4.

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Pascal, Blaise. Pensees. Translated by Honor Levi. Oxford UP, 2008, pt. 8, no. 164.

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Proust, Marcel. La Prisonnière [The Prisoner]. À la recherche du temps perdu [Remembrance of Things Past]. 1923.

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Proust, Marcel. The Prisoner: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 5. Penguin, 2019.