|Letter 150|
Solim to Usbek in Paris [1]
I have made up my mind : your woes are going to disappear, I am going to punish.
I feel already an inner joy ; my soul and yours are going to be calmed ; we are going to exterminate the crime, and innocence is going to pale.
Oh you who seem (...)
|Letter 149||Some reflections on the Persian Letters|
Roxane to Usbek [1] in Paris
Indeed I have deceived you : I have seduced your eunuchs, I have mocked your jealousy ; and I have managed to make of your horrible seraglio a place of delights and pleasures.
I am about to die ; the (...)
Nothing found more favor in Persian Letters than to discover in them, unexpectedly, a sort of novel. One sees the beginning, the development, and the end ; the various characters are placed in a chain that connects them. As their stay in Europe lengthens, the ways of this part of the world (...)
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