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- From: aaron@atlantis.uucp
- Subject: Re: Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire -- anagrams
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.051858.4479@atlantis.uucp>
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- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 05:18:58 GMT
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- Scott Dorsey (kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov) wrote:
- : 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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- A friend of mine who knew his wife said his real name was "Franvoid Jean Marie
- Jacques Galverran Beatrice del Carmen Teresita Margarita Aroute de Voltaire".
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