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… Queen’s zebra became a socio-cultural phenomenon attracting the attention of such eminent philosophers and writers as Voltaire , Rousseau , Walpole , the Rev. William Mason, the poet William Wallbeck and many others. In particular, Voltaire, while describing the English people to Rousseau, mentioned that they love to amuse themselves with ‘oddities of … that zebras might be tameable and converted to the sociable purposes of the horse: 3 . François Marie Arouet de Voltaire, A Letter from Mr. Voltaire to Mr. Jean Jacques Rousseau (London: Payne, 1766), p. 35. 4 . ‘William Mason to …
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