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L’Écossaise

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    In Voltaire: Achievements at Ferney of Voltaire

    …cunning; in his sentimental comedy L’Écossaise (1760), he mimicked the eminent critic Élie Fréron, who had attacked him in reviews, by portraying his adversary as a rascally journalist who intervenes in a quarrel between two Scottish families. He directed Le Sentiment des citoyens (1764) against Rousseau. In this anonymous pamphlet,…

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