Voltaire: How a beautiful autodafe was made to prevent the earthquakes, and how Candide was spanked

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After the earthquake that had destroyed three-quarters of Lisbon, the wises of the country not finding a more effective way to prevent total ruin than to give the people a beautiful autodafe; [after the earthquake of Lisbon, it was in fact an autodafe on June 20, 1756; see Chapter XXXI of the...

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