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Voltaire’s Candide: Exploring the Philosophy of Optimism
Born Francois-Marie Arouet in 1694, this celebrated playwright, poet, essayist, and philosopher reinvented himself as simply ...
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'Voltaire and Frederick' looks at lives in letters
The play is made up of selected letter exchanges between the great French-European philosopher and the royal prince ... and ending with the eulogy Frederick II wrote when Voltaire died in 1778. Their ...