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Okay see readers three of five here and let's just

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dive in Here's the question According to the passage voltaire

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fled paris because in seventy thirty for francois mauriac away

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better known by his pen name voltaire fled paris the

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region sham pollen trading the sophisticated capital for acres of

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rustic vineyards Once again the sharp tongue floss for ahead

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violated french censors Eight years earlier he'd escaped in england

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after the duke johan accused him of slander over his

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isolation from the continent was far from fruitless During his

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time in england voltaire developed his philosopher's identity After a

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three year exile He received permission return to paris and

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seventy twenty nine But he came home a different writer

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and thinker Boy he must have said some really edgy

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things for the french to censor him right with french

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Don't censor anything Okay well let's think about this huh

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Voltaire was a genius Clearly he worked it apples fixing

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phones But he also had a big mouth in the

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seventeen hundreds It was not kosher to go around saying

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things that the government didn't want you to but voltaire

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did it anyway And they had a big pair of

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scissors and a pliers and cut out your tongue for

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doing that Yeah in fact we'll tear was really lucky

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that all he got was exile and you know not

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a coupon for a free day with the scissors or

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the big scissors for the executioner Yeah well anyway so

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let's think about it Yeah he just he violated friend

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sensors That's the right answer in the form of metallic

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could be the loser Both questions they're thrown at you

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to just julia Well let's See though exile proved to

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be a productive time for volt terrian leave paris willingly

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so get that out of their passage Tells us that

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he got the boot for making illegal statements for violating

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a previous exile We'll tear was charged for slander at

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one point but definitely that was used before his seventeen

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thirty for exile from paris You gotta get the dates

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right so that's it Be careful If you're violating france

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sensors at least back then today Well today pretty much 00:01:49.823 --> [endTime] you can say anything you want Eh

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