Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de

Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de
(1694-1778)
   French writer.
   Index: WM Speaks of Canada as "a few acres of snow," 11. L On men and empires, 123.
   Bib.: For biog. and bib. of his works, seeLarousse, Dict. Univ.

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