When Voltaire published the novel Candide in 1759, he likely didn’t expect it to meet so much resistance — and for so much time. It was banned almost immediately in Paris. Within a few years, the Roman Catholic Church banned it. But the real shocker was the banning of Candide in the Soviet Union, then later the United States in 1929. (The postal service refused to deliver it to a Harvard French class after agents read the book.)
Despite it all, Candide sold as well as a limited edition Jordans drop on SNKRs. However, by the time it was unbanned in the United States in 1959, a clean
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