“I study philosophy to make sense of my unresolved cheese issues.”
— Gouda Renée Descartes (1759–1812)
Who was Gouda Renée Descartes?
Frequently mistaken for her more famous (and less dairy-obsessed) cousin, René Descartes, Gouda Renée Descartes carved her own peculiar path through the curds and whey of Enlightenment thought.
Born in a village suspiciously close to both a monastery and a particularly smelly creamery, she spent her youth pondering the existential implications of Camembert, the moral weight of Roquefort, and whether brie dreams counted as rational knowledge.
Her groundbreaking philosophical treatise, “I Curd Therefore I Am,” was banned in three countries for being both too pungent and dangerously melty.
Though her theories were often overlooked in her time, modern thinkers have come to appreciate her unique blend of epistemology and Edam.
Today, she is celebrated as the founder of Fromaginalism — the belief that all human understanding begins with a cheese board and a quiet existential crisis.
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