# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-09-01T09:22:11.266Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Julien Offray de La Mettrie was a French physician and philosopher who pushed Enlightenment materialism past the line polite society would tolerate. In 1747 he published L'homme machine, arguing that the mind is simply part of the body, that humans possess no immortal soul distinguishing them from other animals, and that life's proper aim is pleasure. The position made him one of the earliest French materialists and one of the most controversial: he had to flee France and settle in Berlin, where he died in 1751 at forty-one.