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Jean-François Revel
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19 Jan 1924
† 30 Apr 2006
Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
Biography
Jean-François Revel (born Jean-François Ricard; 19 January 1924 – 30 April 2006) was a French philosopher, journalist, and author. A prominent public intellectual, Revel was a socialist in his youth but later became a prominent European proponent of classical liberalism and free market economics. He was a member of the Académie française after June 1998. He is best known for his book Without Marx or Jesus: The New American Revolution Has Begun, published in French in 1970. Jean-François Ricard ...
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Jean-François Ricard



