1. Waits in Dieppe after exile

    · Dieppe, Normandy, France

    Waits in Dieppe after exile
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    After returning from two and a half years in England, Voltaire spent several months in Dieppe before receiving permission to return to Paris. The return is generally placed in late 1728; the cited sentence gives no month.

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