<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section needs expansion . You can help by adding to it . (June 2016) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section needs expansion . You can help by adding to it . (June 2016) </Td> </Tr> <P> The French philosopher Voltaire used his publications to criticise and mock Rousseau, but also to defend free expression . In his Idées républicaines (1765), he reacted to the news that The Social Contract had been burned in Geneva, saying "The operation of burning it was perhaps as odious as that of writing it . (...) To burn a book of argument is to say:' We do not have enough wit to reply to it ."' The work was also banned in Paris . </P>

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