Condition: New,UPC: 9780140443868,Publication Date: Tue, July 1, 1980,Type: Paperback ,
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4Also known as the Lettres anglaises ou philosophiques, Voltaire's response to his exile in England offered the French public of 1734 a panoramic view of British culture. Perceiving them as a veiled attack against the ancien regime, however, the French government ordered the letters burned and Voltaire persecuted.