Zaïre
L'histoire se situe à Jérusalem, en Palestine, au treizième siècle, durant l'époque des grandes croisades. Il s'agit de la période où le Roi de France, Saint Louis, livre un combat sans merci sur les terres d'Arabie. Orosmane, le bel et jeune soudan régnant sur Jérusalem, de confession musulmane, est amoureux d'une de ses esclaves, Zaïre. Tout le monde pense que la jeune fille est musulmane, car elle a été élevée dans cette foi depuis son enfance, mais en réalité sa religion de naissance est la religion chrétienne. Elle partage largement les sentiments que le sultan Orosmane éprouve à son égard. La jeune femme confie d'ailleurs cette idylle à son amie et esclave Fatime. Elle lui avoue même qu'elle serait prête à renoncer à sa religion de baptême par amour. Toutefois, un évènement inattendu vient perturber les projets des deux amoureux.
Read more
Read less
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".
How to read this smartbook?
On the MySmartBook apps
(with discussion)
(with discussion)
On my computer
(without discussion)
(without discussion)
Readers Reviews
Login
No reviews found. Share your insights with others.
