1717 in Literature - Events

Events

  • May 16 - Voltaire is sentenced to eleven months in the Bastille and is banished from Paris for criticizing the Duc D'OrlĂ©ans. While in prison he writes his first play, Oedipe ("Oedipus").
  • The Irish poet Hugh Mac Cuirtin (or Aodh Buidhe Mac Cuirtin) is imprisoned in Dublin.

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