In the canon
The Persian Letters
Montesquieu
- Form
- Form Satire
- Year
- Year 1721
- Originally in
- Originally in French
- Pages
- Pages 300
Two travellers from Isfahan arrive in Paris and cannot stop writing home. Rica finds the place hilarious: a king who is a magician, since he can persuade his subjects that paper is money, and a Pope who is a greater magician still, since he can make them believe that three are one; strangers trail him down the street asking how it is possible to be Persian.
However can anybody be a Persian?
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