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Charles Porée

Charles Porée (4 September 1675 – 11 January 1741) was a French priest, Jesuit, educator, orator, poet and homme de lettres. All his life, Voltaire, who was his pupil, kept a profound reverence for him.

Charles Porée was the son of Thomas Porée and Madeleine Richer from la Ferté-Macé. His brother Charles-Gabriel was also a writer. Provided by Wikipedia

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An oration, in which an enquiry is made whether the stage is, or can be made a school for forming the mind to virtue; And proving the Superiority of Theatric Instruction over those...

by Porée, Charles
Published 1734

printed for C. Davis, and sold by T. Astley at the Rose in St. Paul's Church-Yard

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The spiritual Quixote : or, the entertaining history of Don Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Order of the Jesuits. Of whom it may, with the strictest Truth be said, that he was one...

by Quesnel, Pierre
Published 1755

printed for J. Bouquet, in Pater-Noster-Row

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