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Daniel Ménager
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Professor of French Literature, University of Paris X. Author of Ronsard: le roi, le poète, et les hommes and others.

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Open copy of Voltaire's Candide showing pages 242 and 243, with text in French and rough, untrimmed page edges, bound in its original blue-paper wrapper.
French literature, the body of written works in the French language produced within the geographic and political boundaries of France. The French language was one of the five major Romance languages to develop from Vulgar Latin as a result of the Roman occupation of western Europe. Since the Middle…
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