In a close-up shot at the start of the mini-series “Voltaire in Love,” a baby François Marie Arouet (also known as French philosopher Voltaire) is pushed out of his mother’s birth canal in a scene of ...

The claim: Voltaire said, 'If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize' Voltaire is one of the many historical figures that is often misattributed. A May 20 ...

The epilogue focuses on the final writings of Madame Roland, who was guillotined in 1793. Unlike the other writers in “The Rest is Silence,” Roland (b. 1754) lived to see the French Revolution. She ...

French philosopher Voltaire said, “Poetry is the music of the soul, and above all, of great and feeling souls.” But that was in the Eighteenth Century. Today poetry is about as popular among the ...

When the French philosopher Voltaire wrote his satirical masterpiece, "Candide," it's a sure bet he didn't have a musical in mind. But the composer Leonard Bernstein saw it a bit differently.