Definition of "philosophe" []

• Any of the leading philosophical, political, and social writers of the 18th-century French Enlightenment. (noun)

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• "At eleven, Monsieur Vigo and I were talking "philosophe" over a wonderful breakfast under the awning, as we dropped down between the forest-lined shores of the Ohio."
• "'' 'Denis Diderot' '' (1713-1784) was a French intellectual ( "[[philosophe]]") and philosopher, and a major organizer and leader of the [[Enlightenment]]."
• "According to the 19th-century food philosophe Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, discovering a new dish "does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.""