1734 in Literature - Events

Events

  • Manoel da Assumpcam begins writing his grammar of the Bengali language.
  • Copies of Voltaire's Lettres philosophiques sur les Anglais are burned, and a warrant is issued for the author's arrest.
  • Le Cabinet du Philosophe, a new periodical by Pierre de Marivaux, is unsuccessfully launched.

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