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Voltaire is depicted on the left. The philosophers of the Lumières movement [Note 1] came with many different talents: Thomas Jefferson had had a legal education but was equally at home with archaeology and architecture; Benjamin Franklin had been a career diplomat and was a physicist. Condorcet wrote on subjects as wide-ranging as commerce ...
Voltaire was a versatile and prolific writer, producing works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, histories, and even scientific expositions. He wrote more than 20,000 letters and 2,000 books and pamphlets. [7] Voltaire was one of the first authors to become renowned and commercially successful internationally.
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues. Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues (French:; 6 August 1715 – 28 May 1747) was a French writer and moralist.He died at age 31, in broken health, having published the year prior—anonymously—a collection of essays and aphorisms with the encouragement of Voltaire, his friend.
1. “Better is the enemy of good.” 2. “I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.” 3. “Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will ...
Candide, ou l'Optimisme (/ k ɒ n ˈ d iː d / kon-DEED, [5] French: ⓘ) is a French satire written by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment, [6] first published in 1759. . The novella has been widely translated, with English versions titled Candide: or, All for the Best (1759); Candide: or, The Optimist (1762); and Candide: Optimism (1947)
A letter in May 1732 is the first recorded mention of Voltaire's intent to write a history of the reign of Louis XIV. [3] He stopped and resumed the project multiple times, expressing the fear that he might not live long enough to complete it. [3]
The Complete Works of Voltaire (Œuvres complètes de Voltaire) is the first critical edition of the totality of Voltaire's writings (in the original French) arranged chronologically. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The project was started by the bibliographer and translator Theodore Besterman who only lived to see the first two volumes published.
Roy Porter argues that the reasons for this neglect were the assumptions that the movement was primarily French-inspired, that it was largely a-religious or anti-clerical, and that it stood in outspoken defiance to the established order. [100] Porter admits that after the 1720s England could claim thinkers to equal Diderot, Voltaire, or Rousseau.