L'Ingénu. La Princesse de Babylone

Name: L'Ingénu. La Princesse de Babylone
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Author: Voltaire
ISBN: 9782081361416

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L'Ingénu, Indien d'Amérique débarqué à Saint-Malo en 1689, découvre à ses dépens les usages du monde sous le règne de Louis XIV (L'Ingénu). Dans le palais du roi de Babylone où les prétendants défilent, la princesse s'éprend du berger Amazan, porté par des licornes et escorté d'un phénix : les deux amants s'engagent bientôt dans un périple à travers l'Orient fabuleux et l'Occident où sévit l'Inquisition (La Princesse de Babylone).
Entre ces deux contes philosophiques rédigés à la même période, l'écart paraît considérable : si le premier se donne pour une « histoire véritable », dans le second, rien n'est crédible. Dans l'un comme dans l'autre pourtant, Voltaire, en conteur espiègle, poursuit son combat contre l'Infâme et les abus des puissants. Réunies dans un même volume, ces oeuvres si disparates témoignent de l'inventivité inépuisable du patriarche de Ferney

Voltaire

François-Marie Arouet (French: ; 21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778), known by his pen name Voltaire (, US also ; French: ), was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher (philosophe), satirist, and historian. Famous for his wit and his criticism of Christianity (especially of the Catholic Church) and of slavery, Voltaire was an advocate of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and separation of church and state. Voltaire was a versatile and prolific writer, producing works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, histories, and even scientific expositions. He wrote more than 20,000 letters and 2,000 books and pamphlets. Voltaire was one of the first authors to become renowned and commercially successful internationally. He was an outspoken advocate of civil liberties and was at constant risk from the strict censorship laws of the Catholic French monarchy. His polemics witheringly satirized intolerance and religious dogma, as well as the French institutions of his day. His best-known work and magnum opus, Candide, is a novella that comments on, criticizes, and ridicules many events, thinkers and philosophies of his time, most notably Gottfried Leibniz and his belief that our world is of necessity the "best of all possible worlds".