November 21st Bargains in Wives François Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694–1778). Letters on the English. Vol. 34, pp. 93-97 of The Harvard Classics The beautiful daughters of the Circassians were in demand for the seraglios of the Turkish Sultan. Voltaire tells how these beauties were protected from smallpox centuries before modern vaccination. (Voltaire ill with smallpox, Nov., 1723.)
