The Huron or Pupil of Nature

The Huron or Pupil of Nature is partly a philosophical, partly a social and political satire aiming at some of Voltaire’s favorite targets. Religious establishments, received opinions, race superiority, the unjustifiable basis of institutional power are laid bare by a novelistic trick. The protagonist is a Huron, whose country has not been yet molded into the French set ways, and he tries to adapt to the French life.