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  2. Voltaire - Wikipedia

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    According to Joxe Azurmendi this anti-Judaism has a relative importance in Voltaire's philosophy of history. However, Voltaire's anti-Judaism influenced later authors like Ernest Renan. [165] Voltaire did have a Jewish friend, Daniel de Fonseca, whom he esteemed highly, and proclaimed him as "the only philosopher, perhaps, among the Jews of his ...

  3. Timeline of French history - Wikipedia

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    Pastry War: Victorious French troops withdraw from Mexico after their demands were satisfied. 1848: February: February Revolution or French Revolution of 1848: Republican riots forced King Louis-Philippe to abdicate and flee to England. 20 December: Louis Napoleon Bonaparte starts his term as the first president of the French Republic.

  4. Idées républicaines - Wikipedia

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    Voltaire writes that a perfect government is impossible, but that a republic is the closest to achieving natural equality. [ 4 ] There are many textual similarities between Idées républicaines and Voltaire's private memorandum on the struggle in Geneva, Propositions à examiner pour apaiser les divisions de Genève .

  5. Philosophy of history - Wikipedia

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    Philosophy of history is the philosophical study of history and its discipline. [1] The term was coined by the French philosopher Voltaire. [2]In contemporary philosophy a distinction has developed between the speculative philosophy of history and the critical philosophy of history, now referred to as analytic.

  6. Enlightened absolutism - Wikipedia

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    Napoleon Bonaparte as First Consul of French Republic (1799–1804) and as Emperor of The First French Empire (1804–1814). Frederick VI of Denmark (1808–1839) [24] Gustav III of Sweden (1771–1792) [24] Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (1765–1790) [23] Joseph I of Portugal (through his minister, the Marquis of Pombal) (1750–1777) Maria ...

  7. Lumières - Wikipedia

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    They redefined the study of knowledge to fit the ethics and aesthetics of their time. Their works had great influence at the end of the 18th century, in the American Declaration of Independence and the French Revolution. [1] This intellectual and cultural renewal by the Lumières movement was, in its strictest sense, limited to Europe.

  8. 17th-century French literature - Wikipedia

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    A major revolution would occur with the appearance of Antoine Galland's first French (and indeed modern) translation of the Thousand and One Nights (or Arabian Nights) (in 1704; another translation appeared in 1710–12), which would influence the 18th-century short stories of Voltaire, Diderot and many others.

  9. French First Republic - Wikipedia

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    Under the Legislative Assembly, which was in power before the proclamation of the First Republic, France was engaged in war with Prussia and Austria.In July 1792, Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick, commanding general of the Austro–Prussian Army, issued his Brunswick Manifesto, threatening the destruction of Paris should any harm come to King Louis XVI of France.