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    La Henriade is an epic poem of 1723 written by the French Enlightenment writer and philosopher Voltaire. According to Voltaire himself, the poem concerns...
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    four plays as analogous to Homer's Illiad, Virgil's Aeneid, Voltaire's Henriade, and Milton's Paradise Lost. The action of the Henriad follows the dynastic...
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    written in French, the Henriade, and later, The Maid of Orleans, besides many other smaller pieces.[citation needed] The Henriade was written in imitation...
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    Montpensier, by Madame de La Fayette. He appears in Voltaire's epic poem "La Henriade" (1723). He is one of the characters in Alexandre Dumas's novel La Reine...
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    Pierre Didot (1760–1853) used the types in printing. His edition of La Henriade by Voltaire in 1818 is considered his masterwork. The typeface takes inspiration...
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    Cuthbertson (1975) selects a wider range of epic, from Gilgamesh to Voltaire's Henriade, but his central theme—that myths encode mechanisms of cultural dynamics...
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    some of the vignettes and tail-pieces to the first edition of Voltaire's Henriade, published in London in 1728. Among his other works were Bathsheba’ after...
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    By this period the Massacre was being widely used by Voltaire (in his Henriade) and other Enlightenment writers in polemics against organized religion...
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    par lui-m^eme. Commentaire historique sur les œuvres de l'auteur de la Henriade. Choix de pièces justificatives pour La vie de Voltaire Correspondance...
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    French, 2000. Poets using Auvergnat: Louis Delhostal (1877–1933) Faucon, La Henriade de Voltaire, mise en vers burlesques par Faucon, Riom; 1798; Le Conte des...
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