“One of the great advantages of our century,” he wrote, “is the number of learned men who can proceed from the thorns of mathematics to the flowers of poetry and who can judge equally well a book of ...
Voltaire Almighty: A Life in Pursuit of Freedom by Roger Pearson 448pp, Bloomsbury, £18.99 Famous in his lifetime as a prolific dramatist and a poet, Voltaire is not much read nowadays, even in France ...
A new biography of Voltaire “the man” is long overdue, and Davidson (Voltaire in Exile) has done an admirable job in writing it. Voltaire, né Marie-François Arouet (1694–1778), the personification of ...
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