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Candide

Note 27 — XXII

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P. 112. Nicholas Charles Joseph Trublet (1697-1770) was a French writer whose criticism of Voltaire was revenged in passages such as this one in Candide, and one in the Pauvre Diable beginning:

L'abbé Trublet avait alors le rage D'être à Paris un petit personage.

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