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About Les Lettres persanes
Montesquieu's Persian Letters (1721) is the founding text of French Enlightenment satire — two Persian noblemen in Paris whose letters expose French institutions as arbitrary conventions; the harem letters whose collapse mirrors the collapse of despotism; Roxane's final letter claiming her freedom. The outside-observer device that defined the Enlightenment.
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