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Letters on the English (XVIII-XIX), by Voltaire

Feb 10, 202231 minSeason 1Ep. 1057
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Voltaire once visited Congreve. This famous dramatist requested to be regarded only as a plain gentleman. "Had you been that I should never have come to see you," Voltaire cynically replies. (Volume 34, Harvard Classics)

William Congreve baptized Feb. 10, 1670.

 

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