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The Year "Voltaire" Was Born

  • Rylee Kigner
  • May 16, 2014
  • 1 min read

Today's the day middle-class François-Marie Arouet was thrown into the Bastille jail for his questionable poem La Henriade. For the time he spent there, Œdipe was created as well as the nom de plume Voltaire.

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