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Letters on the English (XVIII-XIX), by Voltaire

Harvard Classics
Harvard Classics
Episode • Feb 10, 2022 • 31m

Voltaire once visited Congreve. This famous dramatist requested to be regarded only as a plain gentleman. "Had you been that I should never have come to see you," Voltaire cynically replies. (Volume 34, Harvard Classics)

William Congreve baptized Feb. 10, 1670.

 

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