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'''L'ingenu'', or ''The Ingenue'', is a book written by Creator/{{Voltaire}} which tells the story of a Frenchman named "Child of Nature" who had been raised by Hurons and who has returned to his fatherland, in the French province of Brittany, among the abbot de Kerkabon and his sister, both relatives of his deceased parents.
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'''''L'ingenu''''', or '''The Ingenue''', is a book written by Creator/{{Voltaire}} which tells the story of a Frenchman named "Child of Nature" who had been raised by Hurons and who has returned to his fatherland, in the French province of Brittany, among the abbot de Kerkabon and his sister, both relatives of his deceased parents.
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'''''L'ingenu''''', or '''The Ingenue''', is a book written by Creator/{{Voltaire}} which tells the story of a Frenchman named "Child of Nature" who had been raised by Hurons and who has returned to his fatherland, in the French province of Brittany, among the abbot de Kerkabon and his sister, both relatives of his deceased parents.
After arriving he is converted to Catholicism under the name of Hercule de Kerkabon, saves the province from British invaders and goes to Versailles to receive his rewards as a war hero.
Once there, he gets a glimpse of the corruption of the realm and befalls victim of it.
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!! This novel provides examples of:
* ActionGirl: Abacaba, the Ingenue's former girlfriend and friend of her wet-nurse, was a great huntress.
* AndNowYouMustMarryMe: The Bailiff want to force Miss de Saint-Yves to marry his son. [[spoiler:[[RunawayBride He fails]]]].
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: [[spoiler:Gordon's Jansenist beliefs are challenged when the Child of Nature asks him if his teaching about efficacious grace[[note]]God only gave grace to some men[[/note]] don't make him the author of sin]].
* TheAtoner: [[spoiler:Saint-Pouange gave the Ingenu a military employ after indirectly causing Saint-Yves's death]].
* BearsAreBadNews: Abacaba ended up eaten by a bear.
* ChristianityIsCatholic: Averted and SubvertedTrope: although there is Calvinist huguenots and a Jansenist is featured, the Church and the State are making their uymost to stamp any non-Catholic in France.
* DeadlyDecadentCourt: The French royal court is depicted as this.
** [[spoiler:A Versailles devot woman advised Saint-Yves to [[UnusualEuphemism use her natural gifts]] to get the Ingenue's freedom]].
* DeathByDespair: [[spoiler:Saint-Yves died from the shame she had after her intercourse with Saint-Pouange]].
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler: when the unnamed courtesan bought back the expensive diamond earrings Saint-Pouange gave to Saint-Yves]].
* DirtyOldMonk: [[spoiler:When the Prior de Kerkabon went to Versailles to enquire on his nephrew's fate by meeting important prelates the bishop of Saint-Malo recommendated them to, the motive both of them are unable to speak to him is understood they were [[UnusualEuphemism discussing about the Church and theology]]]].
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The Bailiff is not called otherwise in the book.
* TheExile: The Huguenots the hero meets in Saumur have been forced to leave France because Calvinism is now unlawful to practize.
* TheFundamentalist: In the "[[{{Pun}} litteral]]" sense, rejects any religious practice not endorsed by his interpretation of each Biblical verse; for example he asks for a circumcision and to be baptized in a water stream.
* TheHeretic
** The Ingenue is accused of being a Jansenist in a letter sent by the Bailiff.
** Gordon, the Ingenue's cellmate, was held in the Bastille for two years for being a Jansenist.
*** Jansenists are said to the Prior de Kerkabon [[spoiler:coming to Versailles]] to be even worse than the Huguenots and the atheists by a Jansenist.
* IllegalReligion: In 1689, the Protestant religion had been banned in France thanks to the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edict_of_Fontainebleau Edict of Fontainebleau]].
* LockedAwayInAMonastery: Miss de Saint-Yves.
* TheLostLenore: [[spoiler:The Ingenue nevet forgots Saint-Yves intul his last breath]].
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: The "Child of Nature" must see subordinates of subordinates so as to be able to speak to Louvois, the Minister for War.
* TheOldConvict: [[spoiler:Gordon is an old Jansenist hold in the Bastille]].
* OrphansPlotTrinket: The Child of Nature is given, by the Hurons who raised him, a necklace containing the portraits of his dead parents, killed by the natives during an expedition in 1669.
* ParentalIncest: In the spiritual sense: because Miss de Saint-Yves is the Huron's godmother, any marriage between them is considered as incestuous by the Catholic Church; this fact is one of the drivers for the story, because the Huron will go to Paris so as to ask for a papal dispensation.
* PrisonsAreGymnasiums: [[spoiler:Gordon was the teacher of his cellmate the Ingenue]].
* RunawayBride: [[spoiler:Miss de Saint-Yves when she fled her wedding to the Bailiff's son to go to Versailles]].
* ScarpiaUltimatum
** [[spoiler: Miss de Saint-Yves is subjected to this from Saint-Pouange so as to free the hero]].
** SubvertedTrope [[spoiler: After sending a letter to Saint-Pouange to ask him to free Gordon and getting another invitation to "eat," she presents the letter of liberation to the Bastille warden and ''doesn't'' go to the "dinner"]].
* SinisterMinister: [[spoiler:The Jesuit Tout-a-Tous[[note]]Litterally "Everything-to-Everybody"[[/note]] is shown saying to Miss de Saint-Yves Saint-Pouange's proposition are immoral, before cooking excuses after learning from where these propositions came]].
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: [[spoiler:Miss de Saint-Yves]].
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: Each of the characters' futures are described in the end of the story; [[spoiler: the Ingenu became a military officer thanks to Louvois ald lived near Gordon, who got church benefits and totally forgot his Jansenism, the abbot and the m de Saint-Yves got also church benefits, the Versailles devote got to keep the diamond earings and, lastly, Tout-a-Tous got sweets and books]].
* WomenPreferStrongMen: The Ingenue won Abacaba's heart after he chased down an Alongquin who stole one hare she killed.
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After arriving he is converted to Catholicism under the name of Hercule de Kerkabon, saves the province from British invaders and goes to Versailles to receive his rewards as a war hero.
Once there, he gets a glimpse of the corruption of the realm and befalls victim of it.
----
!! This novel provides examples of:
* ActionGirl: Abacaba, the Ingenue's former girlfriend and friend of her wet-nurse, was a great huntress.
* AndNowYouMustMarryMe: The Bailiff want to force Miss de Saint-Yves to marry his son. [[spoiler:[[RunawayBride He fails]]]].
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: [[spoiler:Gordon's Jansenist beliefs are challenged when the Child of Nature asks him if his teaching about efficacious grace[[note]]God only gave grace to some men[[/note]] don't make him the author of sin]].
* TheAtoner: [[spoiler:Saint-Pouange gave the Ingenu a military employ after indirectly causing Saint-Yves's death]].
* BearsAreBadNews: Abacaba ended up eaten by a bear.
* ChristianityIsCatholic: Averted and SubvertedTrope: although there is Calvinist huguenots and a Jansenist is featured, the Church and the State are making their uymost to stamp any non-Catholic in France.
* DeadlyDecadentCourt: The French royal court is depicted as this.
** [[spoiler:A Versailles devot woman advised Saint-Yves to [[UnusualEuphemism use her natural gifts]] to get the Ingenue's freedom]].
* DeathByDespair: [[spoiler:Saint-Yves died from the shame she had after her intercourse with Saint-Pouange]].
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler: when the unnamed courtesan bought back the expensive diamond earrings Saint-Pouange gave to Saint-Yves]].
* DirtyOldMonk: [[spoiler:When the Prior de Kerkabon went to Versailles to enquire on his nephrew's fate by meeting important prelates the bishop of Saint-Malo recommendated them to, the motive both of them are unable to speak to him is understood they were [[UnusualEuphemism discussing about the Church and theology]]]].
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The Bailiff is not called otherwise in the book.
* TheExile: The Huguenots the hero meets in Saumur have been forced to leave France because Calvinism is now unlawful to practize.
* TheFundamentalist: In the "[[{{Pun}} litteral]]" sense, rejects any religious practice not endorsed by his interpretation of each Biblical verse; for example he asks for a circumcision and to be baptized in a water stream.
* TheHeretic
** The Ingenue is accused of being a Jansenist in a letter sent by the Bailiff.
** Gordon, the Ingenue's cellmate, was held in the Bastille for two years for being a Jansenist.
*** Jansenists are said to the Prior de Kerkabon [[spoiler:coming to Versailles]] to be even worse than the Huguenots and the atheists by a Jansenist.
* IllegalReligion: In 1689, the Protestant religion had been banned in France thanks to the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edict_of_Fontainebleau Edict of Fontainebleau]].
* LockedAwayInAMonastery: Miss de Saint-Yves.
* TheLostLenore: [[spoiler:The Ingenue nevet forgots Saint-Yves intul his last breath]].
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: The "Child of Nature" must see subordinates of subordinates so as to be able to speak to Louvois, the Minister for War.
* TheOldConvict: [[spoiler:Gordon is an old Jansenist hold in the Bastille]].
* OrphansPlotTrinket: The Child of Nature is given, by the Hurons who raised him, a necklace containing the portraits of his dead parents, killed by the natives during an expedition in 1669.
* ParentalIncest: In the spiritual sense: because Miss de Saint-Yves is the Huron's godmother, any marriage between them is considered as incestuous by the Catholic Church; this fact is one of the drivers for the story, because the Huron will go to Paris so as to ask for a papal dispensation.
* PrisonsAreGymnasiums: [[spoiler:Gordon was the teacher of his cellmate the Ingenue]].
* RunawayBride: [[spoiler:Miss de Saint-Yves when she fled her wedding to the Bailiff's son to go to Versailles]].
* ScarpiaUltimatum
** [[spoiler: Miss de Saint-Yves is subjected to this from Saint-Pouange so as to free the hero]].
** SubvertedTrope [[spoiler: After sending a letter to Saint-Pouange to ask him to free Gordon and getting another invitation to "eat," she presents the letter of liberation to the Bastille warden and ''doesn't'' go to the "dinner"]].
* SinisterMinister: [[spoiler:The Jesuit Tout-a-Tous[[note]]Litterally "Everything-to-Everybody"[[/note]] is shown saying to Miss de Saint-Yves Saint-Pouange's proposition are immoral, before cooking excuses after learning from where these propositions came]].
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: [[spoiler:Miss de Saint-Yves]].
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: Each of the characters' futures are described in the end of the story; [[spoiler: the Ingenu became a military officer thanks to Louvois ald lived near Gordon, who got church benefits and totally forgot his Jansenism, the abbot and the m de Saint-Yves got also church benefits, the Versailles devote got to keep the diamond earings and, lastly, Tout-a-Tous got sweets and books]].
* WomenPreferStrongMen: The Ingenue won Abacaba's heart after he chased down an Alongquin who stole one hare she killed.
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