1 janv. 1855 - Count Gobineau publishes An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races

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Gobineau ultimately accepts the prevailing Christian doctrine that all human beings shared the common ancestors Adam and Eve (monogenism as opposed to polygenism).


a French diplomat, writer, ethnologist, and social thinker whose theory of racial determinism had an enormous influence upon the subsequent development of racist theories and practices in Western Europe.

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