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Gabriel Bonnot de Mably (1709–1785)
Mably, Gabriel Bonnot de (mä-blē’). A French publicist, brother of Condillac; born at Grenoble, March 14, 1709; died in Paris, April 23, 1785. The admiration of antiquity prevalent during the French Revolution was largely due to his ‘Parallel between the Romans and the French’ (1740), ‘Observations on the Romans’ (1751); and ‘Observations on the History of Greece’ (1766). His ‘Conversations of Phocion’ (1763) has been said to contain the germ of modern communism.