According to Tom Wolfe, the first time this word was used as a noun was when Georges Clemenceau used it in 1898 to congratulate Proust, Anatole France, and Zola for their work in the Dreyfus case; what thinking person's job-title is it?

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Answer: intellectual

The word intellectual derives from the Old French intellectuel, from Late Latin intellctulis, from Latin intellectus

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