jul 1, 1759 - Voltaire writes Candide
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Satirical book criticizing the aristocracy and the churchReflects Voltaire's lifelong aversion to Christian regimes of power and the arrogance of nobility, but it also criticizes certain aspects of the philosophical movement of the Enlightenment; he strongly opposed certain Enlightenment ideas about social class.
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jul 1, 1759
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