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What was Enlightenment? Explaining the Age of Reason
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How Voltaire might present Candide and the Age of Enlightenment
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Voltaire, plaster sculpture by Jean-Antoine Houdon; in the Los Angeles County...
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation (M.2004.5), collections.lacma.org.
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Candide
Title page of an early printed version of Voltaire's Candide published in...
The Newberry Library, Louis H. Silver Collection purchase, 1964 (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
early printing of Voltaire's Candide
An early version of Voltaire's Candide printed in London, 1759.
The Newberry Library, Louis H. Silver Collection purchase, 1964 (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
early printing of Voltaire's Candide
An early version of Voltaire's Candide printed in London, 1759.
The Newberry Library, Louis H. Silver Collection purchase, 1965 (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Pigalle, Jean-Baptiste: bust of Voltaire
Voltaire, bronze bust by Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, c. 1778; in the Los Angeles...
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Purchased with funds provided by Michael J. Connell Foundation, and Mrs. Roy C. Markus and Miss Carlotta Mabury by exchange (M.78.7), www.lacma.org
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