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Zadig and L'Ingenu

Voltaire
1747 · 191 pages

Voltaire uses wit as a demolition tool. Zadig reconstructs a dog and horse from their tracks and is fined for knowing too much, and a Canadian Huron in Brittany finds French religion absurd.

★ 5.9