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L'enfant prodigue

L'enfant prodigue
Voltaire Original title L'Enfant prodigue (French)

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“All styles are good except the boring kind.”

Tous les genres sont bons, hors le genre ennuyeux.
L'Enfant prodigue: comédie en vers dissillabes (1736), Preface
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