Voltaire’s Workshop
The Sources of ‘Candide’
by Edward M. Langille
- Publication
- First published 2025
- ISBN
- 9780228024705
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Mangeons du jésuite
‘Almost everything is imitation,’ Voltaire wrote in one of the French editions of Lettres philosophiques. Books were like a borrowed flame: ‘We go to a neighbour to get the embers, light the fire when we return home and then pass it on to others; it belongs to everyone.’ For the truffle-hunting…
Thomas Keymer