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How Voltaire might present Candide and the Age of Enlightenment
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What was Enlightenment? Explaining the Age of Reason
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How Voltaire might present Candide and the Age of Enlightenment
This 1976 production by Encyclopædia Britannica Educational Corporation imagines...
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Voltaire, bronze by Jean-Antoine Houdon; in the Hermitage, St. Petersburg.
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title page of Voltaire's Candide
Title page of an early printed version of Voltaire's Candide published...
The Newberry Library, Louis H. Silver Collection purchase, 1964 (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
early printing of Voltaire's Candide
An early version of Voltaire's Candide printed in London, 1759.
The Newberry Library, Louis H. Silver Collection purchase, 1964 (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
early printing of Voltaire's Candide
An early version of Voltaire's Candide printed in London, 1759.
The Newberry Library, Louis H. Silver Collection purchase, 1965 (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Pigalle, Jean-Baptiste: bust of Voltaire
Voltaire, bronze bust by Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, c. 1778; in the Los Angeles...
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Purchased with funds provided by Michael J. Connell Foundation, and Mrs. Roy C. Markus and Miss Carlotta Mabury by exchange (M.78.7), www.lacma.org
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