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My question is about bien que.  Sorry if this the wrong place to bring it up, but Jameson brought it up.  

I had thought that bien que was a trigger for the subjonctive.

I went to Larousse to look at bien que:

https://www.larousse.fr/dictionnaires/francais-anglais/bien/9074

bien que

locution conjonctive

   despite the fact that, although, though

  bien que malade, il a tenu à y aller    although he was ill, he insisted on going

NOT the subjonctive

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/french-english/bien-que

bien que  CONJONCTION

although

Il fait assez chaud bien qu’il n’y ait pas de soleil. It’s quite warm although there’s no sun.  subjonctive

So, please can someone explain this to me?

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Why is this not 'Je ne lui pensais guere' please?