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Adélaïde du Guesclin

play by Voltaire

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  • Voltaire
    In Voltaire: Life with Mme du Châtelet

    After Adélaïde du Guesclin (1734), a play about a national tragedy, he brought Alzire to the stage in 1736 with great success. The action of Alzire—in Lima, Peru, at the time of the Spanish conquest—brings out the moral superiority of a humanitarian civilization over methods of…

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