Topic 1:
After reading Candide, write a paper comparing the optimistic philosophy of Pangloss with the pessimism of Martin/ Explain how Voltaire uses this contrast to challenge the assumptions of the Age of Reason/ Note how Voltaire attacks philosophical reasoning generally, along with the irrationality of organized religion/

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Topic 2:
Google “The Swing and “Nude on a Sofa by Rococo artists Fragonard and Boucher, and the neoclassical works “The Oath of the Horatii and “La Grande Odalisque by David and Ingres/ Write a paper contrasting the amoral decadence and excess of the Rococo painters with the more serious and refined works of the Neoclassicists/ Connect Rococo to the reign of Louis XVI and Neoclassicism to the rise of the philosophes and revolutionaries in France/

**650 Words**

Use specific ideas from the readings to support your own ideas/, even if a question calls for using outside sources as well/
Be sure to cite all sources both in the body of your response to the questions and at the end as Works Cited entries to avoid plagiarism/—–This is a MUST!!!!!!

NO Plagiarism!!!