Dupont de Nemours, French political economist; took part in the Revolution; was opposed to the excesses of the Jacobin party, but escaped with his life; wrote a book entitled “Philosophie de l'Universe” (1739‒1817).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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