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Aug 03, 2007
Daniela
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'la guerre....cette boucherie heroique' si vrai, si vrai!
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I read this in French in college and wanted to revisit in English. I didn’t have a strong memory of it other than laughing a lot at its absurdities. It is still funny in English all these years later and it deserves its longstanding reputation as a terrific satire. Voltaire showed how ridiculous was the stance of declaring that even hideous misfortunes are somehow “for the best.” He also beautifully showed that this stance offers a nice cover for what is true indifference to the suffering of oth
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It's so bad when you read it now. I was forced to read it at school and I have bad memoirs about it.
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Jun 05, 2007
peg
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it was amazing
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Jun 30, 2009
Abigail (42stitches)
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Filipe Russo
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