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    Voltaire was the pen name of François-Marie Arouet (1694–1778)a French philosopher and an author who was as prolific as he was influential. In books, pamphlets and plays, he startled, scandalized and inspired his age with savagely sharp satire that unsparingly attacked the most prominent institutions of his day, including royalty and the Roman Catholic Church. His fiery support of freedom of speech and religion, of the separation of church and state, and his intolerance for abuse of power can be seen as ahead of his time, but earned him repeated imprisonments and exile before they won him fame and adulation.

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      VOLTAIRE

      VOLUME 4 OF 43

      L’ingénu

      Parts Edition

      By Delphi Classics, 2015

      Version 1

      COPYRIGHT

      ‘L’ingénu’

      Voltaire: Parts Edition (in 43 parts)

      First published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by Delphi Classics.

      © Delphi Classics, 2017.

      All rights reserved.  No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form other than that in which it is published.

      ISBN: 978 1 78877 746 9

      Delphi Classics

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      Delphi Publishing Ltd

      Hastings, East Sussex

      United Kingdom

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      Voltaire: Parts Edition

      This eBook is Part 4 of the Delphi Classics edition of Voltaire in 43 Parts. It features the unabridged text of L’ingénu from the bestselling edition of the author’s Collected Works. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. Our Parts Editions feature original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of Voltaire, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.

      Visit here to buy the entire Parts Edition of Voltaire or the Collected Works of Voltaire in a single eBook.

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      VOLTAIRE

      IN 43 VOLUMES

      Parts Edition Contents

      The Philosophical Fiction

      1, Zadig

      2, Micromegas

      3, Candide; Or, the Optimist

      4, L’ingénu

      5, The Man of Forty Crowns

      6, Other Philosophical Tales

      The Plays

      7, Oedipus

      8, Mariamne

      9, Zaire

      10, Caesar

      11, The Prodigial

      12, Merope

      13, Olympia

      14, The Orphan of China

      15, Brutus

      16, Mahomet

      17, Amelia

      18, Socrates

      19, Alzire

      20, Orestes

      21, Sémiramis

      22, Catiline

      23, Pandora

      24, The Scotch Woman

      25, Nanine

      26, The Prude

      27, The Tatler

      28, Prefaces to Plays

      The Poetry

      29, The Henriade

      30, The Maid of Orleans

      31, The Lisbon Earthquake and Other Poems

      The Philosophical Works

      32, Letters on England

      33, Philosophical Letters

      34, A Philosophical Dictionary

      35, Toleration and Other Essays

      36, An Essay on Crimes and Punishments

      The Historical Works

      37, Age of Louis Xiv

      38, The History of Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia

      39, History of Charles Xii

      The Criticism

      40, The Criticism

      The Biographies

      41, Voltaire by John Morley

      42, Voltaire: A Sketch of His Life and Works by G. W. Foote and J. M. Wheeler

      43, Voltaire: Brief Biography by George Saintsbury

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      L’ingénu

      OR, THE HURON; OR, PUPIL OF NATURE.

      Translated by Tobias George Smollett and Thomas Francklin

      This satirical novella was published in 1767 and tells the story of a Huron, an indigenous person of North America, called Child of Nature who, after having crossed the Atlantic to England, enters Brittany, France in the 1690’s. Following the newcomer’s arrival, a prior realises connections between the Huron and religious man’s brother and sister-in-law, leading them to deduce that they were his parents and that he is actually French.

      Having grown up outside of European culture, the Ingénu sees the world in a more ‘natural’ way, causing him to interpret things directly, unaware of what is customary, leading to comic misinterpretations. After reading the Bible, he feels he should be circumcised and calls upon a surgeon to perform the operation, which is stopped through the intervention of his ‘family’. After his first confession, he tries to force the priest to confess as well — interpreting a biblical verse to mean confessions must be made mutually and not exempting the clergy. Not expecting to be baptised in a church, they find the Child of Nature waiting in a stream, as baptisms are depicted in the Bible.

      The story satirises religious doctrine, government corruption and the folly and injustices of French society. The novella also criticises the contemporary corruption in the French government. When the Child of Nature is on his way to receive accolades for helping fight off a British amphibious assault, he is wrongly imprisoned as a Jansenist after showing sympathy to the plight of those fleeing religious persecution. He spends a great deal of time in prison, until his lover — having been sent to a convent for four years — journeys to Versailles to find out his plight. To do so, she must use back-channels, such as the wife of a confessor. Ultimately, to secure her lover’s release, she must succumb to the advances of a government minister. She seeks guidance from the confessor, but he says she must have misunderstood the minister’s deal, and that whatever he was intimating, it must be for the best, given that he is related to the king’s confessor. This episode suggests not only the personal corruption in the French government, but the corrupt interplay of secular and religious institutions as well. She eventually gives in for the sake of her lover, but dies of an illness shortly after they are reunited.

      How the novel first appeared in print

      CONTENTS

      CHAPTER I.

      CHAPTER II.

      CHAPTER III.

      CHAPTER IV.

      CHAPTER V.

      CHAPTER VI.

      CHAPTER VII.

      CHAPTER VIII.

      CHAPTER IX.

      CHAPTER X.

      CHAPTER XI.

      CHAPTER XII.

      CHAPTER XIII.

      CHAPTER XIV.

      CHAPTER XV.

      CHAPTER XVI.

      CHAPTER XVII.

      CHAPTER XVIII.

      CHAPTER XIX.

      CHAPTER XX.

      Huron-Plume group – Spencerwood, Quebec City, 1880

      CHAPTER I.

      THE HURON ARRIVES IN FRANCE.

      One day, Saint Dunstan, an Irishman by nation, and a saint by trade, left Ireland on a small mountain, which took its route toward the coast of France, and set his saintship down in the bay of St. Malo. When he had dismounted, he gave his blessing to the mountain, which, after some profound bows, took its leave, and returned to its former place.

      Here St. Dunstan laid the foundation of a small priory, and gave it the name of the Priory Mountain, which it still keeps, as every body knows.

      In the year 1689, the fifteenth day of July, in the evening, the abbot Kerkabon, prior of our Lady of the Mountain, happened to take the air along the shore with Miss Kerkabon, his sister. The prior, who was becoming aged, was a very good clergyman, beloved by his neighbors. What added most to the respect that was paid him, was, that among all his clerical neighbors, he was the only one that could walk to his bed after supper. He was tolerably read in theology; and when he was tired of reading St. Augustin, he refreshed himself with Rabelais. All the world spoke well of him.

      Miss Kerkabon, who had never been married, notwithstanding her hearty wishes so to be, had preserved a freshness of complexion in her forty-fifth year. Her character was that of a good and sensible woman. She was fond of pleasure, and was a devotee.

      As they were walking, the prior, looking on the sea, said to his sister:

      It was here, alas! that our poor brother embarked with our dear sister-in-law, Madam Kerkabon, his wife, on board the frigate ‘Swallow,’ in 1669, to serve the king in Canada. Had he not been killed, probably he would have written to us.

      Do you believe, says Miss Kerkabon, that our sister-in-law has been eaten by the Cherokees, as we have been told?

      "Certain it

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