With whom did she have a prominent dispute?
Louis XVI
Denis Diderot
Jean le Rond d'Alembert
Napoleon Bonaparte
Answer
She had a prominent dispute with Jean le Rond d'Alembert, a French philosopher, mathematician, and music theorist. She was a follower of Gottfried Leibniz's philosophy of monads, which d'Alembert disagreed with. She also believed that women were intellectually equal to men, which d'Alembert did not.
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