Pierre-Simon Ballanche
Pierre-Simon Ballanche ( 4 August 1776 – 12 June 1847 ) was a French writer and counterrevolutionary philosopher , who elaborated a theology of progress that possessed considerable influence in French literary circles in the beginning of the nineteenth century . 
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