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Description:
The passage implies that Voltaire
(A)had ideas that got him into trouble
(B)avoided controversy at all cost
(C)was a well-respected thinker
(D)preferred Champagne to Paris
Transcript
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Okay next paragraph we have to analyze here let's just
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skim it in seventeen thirty for francois mopey away better
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known by his pen name voltaire fled paris to the
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region Sham pong you trading the sophisticated capital for acres
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Rest venues once again sharp tongue flaws for had violated
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for uncensored eight years during his escape franchise for identity
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After three years exile he believed permission return pair of
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seventy twenty nine came home A different writer and thinker
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Okay so what is this all about Well the passage
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implies that voltaire what well let's see if he was
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forced to flee the city twice Then volterra must have
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been something of a troublemaker know the passage tells us
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that the philosopher was first accused of slander then later
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charged with violating french sensors or prohibitions against certain ideas
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are writings Voltaire was a freethinker living in a not
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so free thinking time Yeah so the answer's aye he
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had ideas that got him in trouble and all the 00:00:55.946 --> [endTime] rest
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