The Sincere Huron, Voltaire 1767
Channel: Age of Enlightenment
Date: 2015-10-28

I choose that a story should be founded on probability, and not always resemble a dream. I desire to find nothing in it trivial or extravagant; and I desire above all, that under the appearance of fable there may appear some latent truth, obvious to the discerning eye, though it escape the observation of the vulgar.--Voltaire.

Voltaire wrote what the people thought, and consequently his writings were universally read. 

Truth and Fiction or fiction
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