Voltaire, Candide: History of Cunegoride

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“I was in my bed and slept deeply when Heaven pleased to send the Bulgarians to our beautiful castle of Thunder-ten-tronckh; they killed my father and my brother, and cut off my mother in pieces. A great Bulgarian, six feet high, seeing that at this spectacle I had lost consciousness,...

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