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EVENTS

Antoine François Prévost (Abbé Prévost) arrives in London, where he will edit ''Le Pour et centre''

Voltaire begins his relationship with Emilie De Breteuil, Marquise Du Chatelet

NEW BOOKS

'' The Man Of Taste '' - James Bramston

'' On Poetry, A Rhapsody '' - Jonathan Swift

'' Philosophic Letters '' - Voltaire

'' The Spiritual Quixote '' - Richard Graves

BIRTHS

January 12 - Antoine-Marin Lemierre , French poet and dramatist

March 18 - Christoph Friedrich Nicolai , critic and bookseller

August 22 - Jean-François Ducis , dramatist

September 5 - Christoph Martin Wieland , German poet

''date unknown'' - Robert Lloyd , poet and satirist

DEATHS

January 19 - Bernard De Mandeville , satirist and philosopher

March 13 - Mademoiselle Aïssé , letter-writer

August 16 - Matthew Tindal , deist writer

''date unknown'' - John Dunton , writer and booksseller