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- From: kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey)
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- Subject: Re: Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire -- anagrams
- Date: 6 Jan 1993 13:58:41 GMT
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- elkies@ramanujan.harvard.edu (Noam Elkies) says:
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- >Nice, but I thought "Voltaire" was itself an anagram of his actual
- >last name, "Arouet l.j." (l.j. = Jr., and using the old convention
- >that i=j and u=v in anagrams). Did he ever call himself "Francois
- >Marie Arouet Voltaire"?
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- The bust of him in the library when I was in college read
- "Francois Jean Marie Arouet de Voltaire."
- --scott
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