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Voltaire discusses the claims of the Spanish, Portuguese, English, French, and Dutch to lands in the New World, explaining that such lands are shared very unequally amongst the various countries.
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Voltaire writes about the origins of the Hebrew language.
A variety of notebook entries on a range of topics including ‘histoire orientale’, ‘Poeme pour le tombau d’abas invocation a mahomet’, ‘Turcs’ ‘janissaires’, ‘siege de vienne’, ‘portrait de mahomet’, ‘peintures’, ‘superstition’, ‘arts antiquite’, ‘luxe Charlemagne luxe’, ‘philippe le be[l]’, ‘louis ix lux’, ‘france’, ‘1430’, ‘1370’, ‘vers law 1630’, ‘postes’, ‘pavé’, ‘equipages’, and ‘commerce’. The following leaf can be found at BnF, n.a.fr.24342, f.287.
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