Pierre-Simon Ballanche
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French writer and philosopher
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Pierre-Simon Ballanche was a French writer and counterrevolutionary philosopher, who elaborated a theology of progress that possessed considerable influence in French literary circles in the beginning of the nineteenth century. He was the ninth member elected to occupy seat 4 of the Académie française in 1842.
