This novel's "Fragment from an Ancient Manuscript" caricatures John Law as a son of Aeolus who sells balloons full of wind.
A pamphlet by J. B. Gaultier accused this work of impiety. One character in this novel tells Nathanael Levi about a doctor who prescribes readings as laxatives and emetics. It includes a story about Anaïs, a woman who is pleasured by celestial men after being murdered by her jealous husband Ibrahim. This novel's "Fragment from an Ancient Manuscript" caricatures John Law as a son of Aeolus who sells balloons full of wind. Its 126th section comments on the Cellamare conspiracy, while its 85th section describes religious intolerance as the "total eclipse of human reason." It ends with the suicide of Roxana after the cruel Solim takes over from the Chief Black Eunuch, whose death causes disorder in a central character's harem. Its eleventh through fourteenth sections describe a fictional nation of unjust people who take advantage of one another before dying of a plague, and is then repopulated with pious and just people. It criticizes the Regency of Philippe d'Orleans and the last years of Louis XIV, and contains the parable of the ? Troglodytes. For 10 points, name this work about Usbek and Rica, two noblemen who travel from Ispahan to Paris, an epistolary novel by Montesquieu.
A pamphlet by J. B. Gaultier accused this work of impiety. One character in this novel tells Nathanael Levi about a doctor who prescribes readings as laxatives and emetics.
{Persian Letters} [or {Lettres persanes}]