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VOLTAIRE
VOLUME 4 OF 43
L’ingénu
Parts Edition
By Delphi Classics, 2015
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‘L’ingénu’
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VOLTAIRE
IN 43 VOLUMES
Parts Edition Contents
The Philosophical Fiction
1, Zadig
2, Micromegas
3, Candide; Or, the Optimist
4, L’ingénu
5, The Man of Forty Crowns
6, Other Philosophical Tales
The Plays
7, Oedipus
8, Mariamne
9, Zaire
10, Caesar
11, The Prodigial
12, Merope
13, Olympia
14, The Orphan of China
15, Brutus
16, Mahomet
17, Amelia
18, Socrates
19, Alzire
20, Orestes
21, Sémiramis
22, Catiline
23, Pandora
24, The Scotch Woman
25, Nanine
26, The Prude
27, The Tatler
28, Prefaces to Plays
The Poetry
29, The Henriade
30, The Maid of Orleans
31, The Lisbon Earthquake and Other Poems
The Philosophical Works
32, Letters on England
33, Philosophical Letters
34, A Philosophical Dictionary
35, Toleration and Other Essays
36, An Essay on Crimes and Punishments
The Historical Works
37, Age of Louis Xiv
38, The History of Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia
39, History of Charles Xii
The Criticism
40, The Criticism
The Biographies
41, Voltaire by John Morley
42, Voltaire: A Sketch of His Life and Works by G. W. Foote and J. M. Wheeler
43, Voltaire: Brief Biography by George Saintsbury
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L’ingénu
OR, THE HURON; OR, PUPIL OF NATURE.
Translated by Tobias George Smollett and Thomas Francklin
This satirical novella was published in 1767 and tells the story of a Huron, an indigenous person of North America, called Child of Nature
who, after having crossed the Atlantic to England, enters Brittany, France in the 1690’s. Following the newcomer’s arrival, a prior realises connections between the Huron and religious man’s brother and sister-in-law, leading them to deduce that they were his parents and that he is actually French.
Having grown up outside of European culture, the Ingénu sees the world in a more ‘natural’ way, causing him to interpret things directly, unaware of what is customary, leading to comic misinterpretations. After reading the Bible, he feels he should be circumcised and calls upon a surgeon to perform the operation, which is stopped through the intervention of his ‘family’. After his first confession, he tries to force the priest to confess as well — interpreting a biblical verse to mean confessions must be made mutually and not exempting the clergy. Not expecting to be baptised in a church, they find the Child of Nature waiting in a stream, as baptisms are depicted in the Bible.
The story satirises religious doctrine, government corruption and the folly and injustices of French society. The novella also criticises the contemporary corruption in the French government. When the Child of Nature is on his way to receive accolades for helping fight off a British amphibious assault, he is wrongly imprisoned as a Jansenist after showing sympathy to the plight of those fleeing religious persecution. He spends a great deal of time in prison, until his lover — having been sent to a convent for four years — journeys to Versailles to find out his plight. To do so, she must use back-channels, such as the wife of a confessor. Ultimately, to secure her lover’s release, she must succumb to the advances of a government minister. She seeks guidance from the confessor, but he says she must have misunderstood the minister’s deal, and that whatever he was intimating, it must be for the best, given that he is related to the king’s confessor. This episode suggests not only the personal corruption in the French government, but the corrupt interplay of secular and religious institutions as well. She eventually gives in for the sake of her lover, but dies of an illness shortly after they are reunited.
How the novel first appeared in print
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER V.
CHAPTER VI.
CHAPTER VII.
CHAPTER VIII.
CHAPTER IX.
CHAPTER X.
CHAPTER XI.
CHAPTER XII.
CHAPTER XIII.
CHAPTER XIV.
CHAPTER XV.
CHAPTER XVI.
CHAPTER XVII.
CHAPTER XVIII.
CHAPTER XIX.
CHAPTER XX.
Huron-Plume group – Spencerwood, Quebec City, 1880
CHAPTER I.
THE HURON ARRIVES IN FRANCE.
One day, Saint Dunstan, an Irishman by nation, and a saint by trade, left Ireland on a small mountain, which took its route toward the coast of France, and set his saintship down in the bay of St. Malo. When he had dismounted, he gave his blessing to the mountain, which, after some profound bows, took its leave, and returned to its former place.
Here St. Dunstan laid the foundation of a small priory, and gave it the name of the Priory Mountain, which it still keeps, as every body knows.
In the year 1689, the fifteenth day of July, in the evening, the abbot Kerkabon, prior of our Lady of the Mountain, happened to take the air along the shore with Miss Kerkabon, his sister. The prior, who was becoming aged, was a very good clergyman, beloved by his neighbors. What added most to the respect that was paid him, was, that among all his clerical neighbors, he was the only one that could walk to his bed after supper. He was tolerably read in theology; and when he was tired of reading St. Augustin, he refreshed himself with Rabelais. All the world spoke well of him.
Miss Kerkabon, who had never been married, notwithstanding her hearty wishes so to be, had preserved a freshness of complexion in her forty-fifth year. Her character was that of a good and sensible woman. She was fond of pleasure, and was a devotee.
As they were walking, the prior, looking on the sea, said to his sister:
It was here, alas! that our poor brother embarked with our dear sister-in-law, Madam Kerkabon, his wife, on board the frigate ‘Swallow,’ in 1669, to serve the king in Canada. Had he not been killed, probably he would have written to us.
Do you believe,
says Miss Kerkabon, that our sister-in-law has been eaten by the Cherokees, as we have been told?
"Certain it