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 ...
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The Woman Who Illuminated Science for Voltaire

This is an illustration from the preface of *Principles of Newtonian Philosophy*, co-authored in 1738 by French philosopher ...
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.
A quote shared by Rep. Thomas Massie on Sunday was the subject of a USA Today fact-check last year. Massie attributed the quote to Voltaire, but experts trace it back to Kevin Alfred Strom. Strom, an ...
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 ...