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Six example sentences with savant, each labelled with its topic.
Elected at twenty-six, the young savant was the youngest name on the academy's roll for the next forty years.
Science
Napoleon carried a corps of savants to Egypt, and their volumes on the country outlived every treaty of the campaign.
History
The society elected its first woman savant in 1745, decades before any university would let her sit an examination.
Philosophy
Voltaire mocked the savants of the Academy in one pamphlet and begged for a seat among them in the next.
Literature
Each savant of the medical academy had to present a paper within a year of election or forfeit the seat.
Medicine
The assembly asked a committee of savants to design the metric system, trusting scholars over merchants.
Politics
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