Illustration: setting of Voltaire's play "L'orphelin de la Chine", based on the Chinese play ZHAO GU'ER ("the orpan Zhao"). Probably depicting the capture of Peking by the Mongols (1215). Figures fighting and fleeing, smoke and fire in the city.

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Title	Illustration: setting of Voltaire's play "L'orphelin de la Chine", based on the Chinese play ZHAO GU'ER ("the orpan Zhao"). Probably depicting the capture of Peking by the Mongols (1215). Figures fighting and fleeing, smoke and fire in the city.
Shelfmark	7275
Note	Zhao gu'er 趙孤兒
Scanned from	Original photograph Bibliothèque Nationale
Ownership	Bibliothèque de l'Opera, Esq. Anc. V.37
Persistent URL	http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:1515884

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