1. Meets Rousseau in Brussels

    · Brussels, Austrian Netherlands

    Meets Rousseau in Brussels
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    While traveling north to find a publisher for his epic poem, Voltaire stopped in Brussels and met the poet Jean-Baptiste Rousseau. Month applies to the northward journey; the source does not provide the exact days of the Brussels stay.

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