Did Censorship Make the French Enlightenment?

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The censorship of books, and of the ideas they contain, was as complex and contentious a subject during the French Enlightenment as it remains today. This exhibition, marking the 250th anniversary of the publication of Voltaire's satirical masterpiece Candide, draws on the collections of the Rare Book and Manuscript Library to examine the aims and methods of censorship in Enlightenment France. It focuses on the publication of major texts by Molière, Voltaire, Diderot, Graffigny, and Rousseau and highlights in particular the many cases where the censors themselves help broker compromises that allowed the most controversial Enlightenment publication projects to go forward

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