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    Louis-Sébastien Mercier (6 June 1740 – 25 April 1814) was a French dramatist and writer, whose 1771 novel L'An 2440 is an example of proto-science fiction...
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    Halcyon Days of France in the Year 2440: A Dream) is a 1771 novel by Louis-Sébastien Mercier. It has been described as one of the most popular and controversial...
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    head of Louis XVI., showed it to the people, and for a few moments let the blood from it trickle upon the scaffold. In Le nouveau Paris, Mercier describes...
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  • painter Louis-Sébastien Mercier (1740–1814), French writer Michel Mercier, contemporary French politician Michèle Mercier, French actress Pascal Mercier, pseudonym...
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  • after the event references 400 dead and 800 wounded. French writer Louis-Sébastien Mercier claimed in his popular 1770 novel L'An 2440, rêve s'il en fut jamais...
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  • Le Déserteur, drame en cinq actes et en prose, a 1770 play by Louis-Sébastien Mercier Le Déserteur, a 1966 novel by Jean Giono The Deserter (disambiguation)...
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    named after the drama Jenneval, ou le Barnevelt français (1769) of Louis Sébastien Mercier. Dechet worked in Ajaccio, Marseille and in 1826 at the Paris Odéon...
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    everywhere, but the first place has been given to those of Paris." Louis-Sébastien Mercier (in 1782) noted that Parisians were often described as "perfect...
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    Lewis; Travels in France by Arthur Young; and Tableau de Paris by Louis-Sébastien Mercier. Dickens also used material from an account of imprisonment during...
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    jamais (The Year 2440: A Dream If Ever There Was One, 1770) by Louis-Sébastien Mercier, Rip Van Winkle (1819) by Washington Irving, Looking Backward (1888)...
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