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The line “I Disapprove of What You Say…” gets tossed around so casually that many people assume it came straight from Voltaire’s quill. Dig into the record, though, and the story flips. The quote wasn ...

Neo-Nazi, not Voltaire, originated quote about 'who rules over you' If Your Time is short In an attack on Dr. Anthony Fauci, U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., tweeted a one-liner that he wrongly claimed ...

A famous Enlightenment era writer and philosopher, Voltaire made a splash with his first play, Oedipe. Wikimedia Commons François-Marie d’Arouet was the kind of precocious teen who always got invited ...

It’s fitting to celebrate the writer Voltaire—born François-Marie Arouet—on Bastille Day, given that he himself was imprisoned there early in his writing career. As an Enlightenment philosopher and ...

Like most bookshops around Paris, Emile, which caters to young readers, sold all its copies of Voltaire's Treatise on Tolerance on Jan. 8, the day after two gunmen stormed into satirical magazine ...

IN his genial progress from battlefield to battlefield of old Shakespearean Wars, Professor Thomas R. Lounsbury comes in his second volume 1 to the scene of that dread conflict once so bitterly waged ...