Voltaire claimed to have written this wildly improbable picaresque novel in three days during 1758. It was published in 1759 and was immensely popular; it averaged two new editions a year for the next twenty years. Pangloss, tutor to the incredibly callow hero, is a caricature of the optimis...
But his disappointments and disillusions with Frederick the Great changed his philosophy and soon gave birth to one of his most enduring works, his novella Candide, or Optimism (1759), which ends with a new conclusion: “It is up to us to cultivate our garden.” He is remembered and ...
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Francois Marie Arouet,who called himself Voltaire,was the son of Francois Arouet of Poitou,who lived in Paris,had given up his office of notary two years before the birth of this his third son,and obtained some years afterwards a treasurer's office in the Chambre des Comptes.Voltaire was bo...
In a close-up shot at the start of the mini-series “Voltaire in Love,” a baby François Marie Arouet (also known as French philosopher Voltaire) is pushed out of his mother’s birth canal in a scene of intense labor. A graphic reference to Gustave Courbet’s famous painting The Orig...
Who produced the greatest epigrams and quotations of all time? It should come as no surprise that the greatest writers produced some of the greatest epigrams: Shakespeare, Homer, Sappho, Aristotle, Basho, Dante, Hafiz, Martial, Milton, Plato, Rumi, Socrates, Sophocles, Voltaire, Mark Twain, Os...
One of the most famous mathematicians in Europe, named Stoffler, who flourished in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and who long worked at the reform of the calendar, proposed at the Council of Constance, foretold a universal flood for the year 1524. This flood was to arrive in the ...
Originally lead singer of Johnson Dean’s ‘Somebody Somewhere’ on W.A.U! Mr Modo Recordings last year, Lancashire lassie Lynda (no apparent relation of Joanna) has a distinctive and distinctly worrying, swooping and quavering falsetto vocal approach that keeps sounding ...
year (1717). Behind his cheerfulfacade, he was fundamentally serious and set himself to learn the accepted literary forms. In 1718, after the success ofOedipe, the first of histragedies, he was acclaimed as the successor of the great classical dramatistJean Racineand thenceforward adopted the ...
Voltaire was the nom de plume of Francois Marie Arouet (1694-1778) was born on November 21, 1694 in Paris; although, some say that his birth was kept secret for he was quoted as saying many times that he had been born on February 20 of that same year. Because of Voltaire's wit, ...