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"Candide, who trembled like a philosopher, hid himself as well as he could during this heroic butchery."

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About Voltaire

Voltaire was a French Enlightenment writer, satirist, and philosopher born François-Marie Arouet. He is known for his advocacy of civil liberties and for influential works such as Candide and his philosophical letters.

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