I.
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| Birth and family descent | [41] |
| His youth at the Sorbonne | [47] |
| Intellectual training | [52] |
| His college friends: Morellet, and Loménie de Brienne | [54] |
| Turgot refused to become an ecclesiastic | [56] |
| His revolt against dominant sophisms of the time | [60] |
| Letter to Buffon | [61] |
| Precocity of his intellect | [65] |
| Letter to Madame de Graffigny | [65] |
| Illustrates the influence of Locke | [69] |
| Views on marriage | [72] |
| On the controversy opened by Rousseau | [72] |
| Turgot's power of grave suspense | [76] |