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Lyndon Hood: New Zealand's Answer To A Question Voltaire Never Asked, Lower Hutt

Thursday, October 11, 2012

(Candide: Or, Toryism)
When I was last in France, I came across a manuscript hidden behind a panel in one of the quieter wings of the Louvre palace. (I try to vandalise a major monument whenever I visit in Paris.)

t turned out the single, closely-written sheet was apparently a previously unknown work by Voltaire, who if I remember right was the guy who invented electricity. So the discover might be interesting for some.

Between my schoolboy French and Google Translate I managed to knock out an English version before customs confiscated the original under some stupid international treaty. More>>

From Werewolf 35.


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