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 ...

Before becoming one of history’s most influential philosophers, Voltaire was broke, controversial, and constantly in trouble ...

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 ...

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 ...