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Voltaire
[ vohl-tair, vol-; French vawl-ter ]
noun
- François Marie Arouet, 1694–1778, French philosopher, historian, satirist, dramatist, and essayist.
Voltaire
/ vəʊl-; vɔltɛr; vɒlˈtɛə /
noun
- Voltaire16941778MFrenchWRITING: writer pseudonym of François Marie Arouet. 1694–1778, French writer, whose outspoken belief in religious, political, and social liberty made him the embodiment of the 18th-century Enlightenment. His major works include Lettres philosophiques (1734) and the satire Candide (1759). He also wrote plays, such as ܲï (1732), poems, and scientific studies. He suffered several periods of banishment for his radical views
Voltaire
- The nom de plume of François Arouet, an eighteenth-century French philosopher and author and a major figure of the Enlightenment . Voltaire was known as a wit and freethinker. The most famous of his works is Candide.
Derived Forms
- մDZˈٲ, adjectivenoun
Other yvlog Forms
- մDZ·ٲ· մDZ·ٲi· adjective noun
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Voltaire would have warned that history repeats and repeats and repeats.
On the library shelves, Voltaire and George Eliot are joined by Agatha Christie and Erle Stanley Gardner, the Ventura lawyer and author who created Perry Mason.
The resulting images — a cloud shaped like “an angry sandwich,” a bird making a home inside “a nice friendly bear” — would not have been out of place at the Cabaret Voltaire.
To this day, it is often misattributed to Voltaire.
Servers wended through the crowd, carrying hors d’oeuvres trays of crescent duck and caviar as they passed shelves lined with rare editions of works by Rousseau and Voltaire.
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