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Crébillon refuses to license "Mahomet"

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It is acted at Lille in Flanders by La Noue and Mademoiselle
Clairon

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The Duke of Richelieu, a Favourite of Louis XV.

1743.

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Ætat. 49. Voltaire endeavours to obtain a Seat in the French
Academy, but is rejected

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