Louis-Sébastien Mercier

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Arts and letters

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What Wikipedia says

Louis-Sébastien Mercier (6 June 1740 – 25 April 1814) was a French dramatist and writer, whose 1771 novel L'An 2440 is an example of proto-science fiction.

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