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Le Taureau Blanc

Author
Voltaire
Series
World Classics
Language
French
Length
50 pages
ISBN
9781911495383
Published
10 July 2016
Imprint
Urban Romantics
  • Voltaire
  • enlightenment
  • history
  • philosophy
  • humour
  • wit
  • poetry
  • epic
  • romantic
  • philosophical

Description

The story is based on the Greek tale of Europa and the bull. The white bull is in fact the Greek god Zeus. Set in Ancient Egypt, Princess Amasidia, daughter to King Amasis, is walking along the Pelusium Way. She is deeply saddened as her love has been missing for 7 years and the King has forbidden him. No one in the kingdom is to even speak his name. While walking along the Pelusium Way she encounters many majestic creatures one which is the most beautiful White Bull she has ever seen.

Author

Voltaire (1694–1778) made French prose feel like a blade you could pocket. Candide moves too fast for consolation: earthquake, war, and a garden that is not a philosophy so much as a last useful sentence. The letters, the tales, the long public quarrel with superstition — they share one climate. Ridicule here is not decoration. It is how a mind stays free in a crowded century.