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1717
| 1717 • François-Marie Arouet is sentenced to imprisonment in the Bastille for eleven months because of a satirical verse against the Régent of France and his infamous daughter Marie Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans who at the time was hiding an illegitimate pregnancy and soon to give birth;Jean-Michel Raynaud, Voltaire soi-disant, Presses Universitaires de Lille, 1983, vol.1, p.289 Arouet will emerge with the pseudonym Voltaire and the completed text of his first play, Œdipe. |
1787
Oct 15
Age: 70y
| 1787 • In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates begin arriving for a Constitutional Convention (United States). |