The line “I Disapprove of What You Say…” gets tossed around so casually that many people assume it came straight from Voltaire’s quill. Dig into the record, though, and the story flips. The quote wasn ...
Dita Von Teese, known worldwide as the undisputed Queen of Burlesque, will continue to dazzle audiences through 2025 at Voltaire inside The Venetian Resort Las Vegas. Glamorously provocative like no ...
“Italy had its renaissance, Germany its reformation, France had Voltaire”, the historian Will Durant once commented. Born François-Marie Arouet, Voltaire (1694-1778) was known in his lifetime as the ...
Atelier de Nicolas de Largilliere, portrait of Voltaire at 24. Wikimedia Commons “Italy had its renaissance, Germany its reformation, France had Voltaire”, the historian Will Durant once commented.
"Voltaire's voice is the voice of the Enlightenment", Ian Davidson states in his prologue, but this biography expands greatly on the image of Voltaire the philosophe, outlining his consuming ambition, ...
Lorraine Boissoneault | Author, Body Weather: Notes on Chronic Illness in the Anthropocene A famous Enlightenment era writer and philosopher, Voltaire made a splash with his first play, Oedipe.