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Original Title:	L'Ingénu
ISBN:	2038715548 (ISBN13: 9782038715545)
Edition Language:	French
Characters:	Gordon, Mlle de Saint-Yves, L'Ingénu

L'Ingénu Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 199 pages

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Un jeune Huron d’ascendance bretonne débarque à Saint-Malo en 1689. Il découvre un coin de province française, retrouve une famille, reçoit le baptême, s’illustre par un fait d’armes contre les Anglais et, pour finir, tombe amoureux de la belle et dévote Mlle de Saint-Yves. Pour obtenir sa main, il doit revenir de la Cour avec un brevet d’officier. Il gagne donc Versailles. Mais ses éclats naïfs le conduisent à la Bastille...

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Title	:	L'Ingénu
Author	:	Voltaire
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 199 pages
Published	:	2003 by Editions Larousse (first published 1767)
Categories	:	Classics. Cultural. France. Philosophy. Fiction. European Literature. French Literature

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Ratings: 3.61 From 2275 Users | 125 Reviews

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A short, fast paced novel about a naive indigenous that is conveted to catholicism.Filled with a fantastic sense of humor as the Huran questions and challenges the foundations of social norms, one is left to wonder who is, indeed, the naive.

Depicting a satirical look at religious doctrines, traditions, government and laws, Voltaire presents the tale of a Huron Indian, who has just crossed the Atlantic, discovered some family members, and must now conform to their way of life. His misinterpretations of laws and customs prove rather comic in some instances but eventually he is imprisoned for such misinterpretation and loses his lover...Listen at librivox: http://librivox.org/the-sincere-huron...

For a book of the 18th century, is very good.You can almost see yourself in that time, living their lives.

For a book of the 18th century, is very good.You can almost see yourself in that time, living their lives.

Good book.Read in french.

L'Ingénu = The Sincere Huron, Voltaire L'Ingénu is a satirical novella by the French writer Voltaire, published in 1767. It tells the story of a Huron called "Child of Nature" who, after having crossed the Atlantic to England, crosses into Brittany, France in the 1690s. Upon arrival, a prior notices depictions of his brother and sister-in-law, whom they deduce to be the Huron's parents - making him French.تاریخ نخستین خوانش: روز چهارم ماه آگوست سال 2009 میلادیعنوان: ساده دل اثر: ولتر مترجم: محمد

Surprisingly good!