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...(Marquis de Sade, anyone?)...
...In 1831, when the first of McCullough’s Americans were heading to France, a young French politician named Alexis de Tocqueville sailed in the opposite direction....
...A sinister, one-armed French marquis, he is the latest in a long line of ambiguous surrogate parents in Carey’s fiction....
...From the Marquis de Condorcet to Karl Marx and up to the present day, Enlightenment thinkers have argued that religion is a by-product of backwardness....
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