Born Francois-Marie Arouet in 1694, this celebrated playwright, poet, essayist, and philosopher reinvented himself as simply ...

The tension between Evans and Lattimore finally came to a head at the end of the first half in a one-on-one battle that would make Voltaire and Rousseau's feud look amateur. Evans and Lattimore ...

Chess as a metaphor for life, reflecting history, strategy, creativity, and intellect, offering lessons for a well-played ...

John Adams and Rousseau An inveterate arguer, John Adams made copious — and highly explosive — notes in many of his books now at the Boston Public Library.He was especially incensed against ...

(Voltaire had already compromised himself by writing an adulatory ... Some French philosophers, notably Jean le Rond d’Alembert and, surprisingly, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, spurned Catherine’s ...

We hear of the contributions of Voltaire and Hume, Rousseau and Lessing, among others, but also of the gentleman tourist Henry Penruddocke Wyndham and of the wife of a professor, Luise Gottsched, who ...

It can be traced back to the Enlightenment, particularly to Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Much hinges on ... [1] We might paraphrase Voltaire and say, “God is on the side of the heavy casualties.” ...

After the Revolution, it was transformed into a secular temple and burial place of the “great men” of France, including Victor Hugo, Voltaire and Rousseau. Marie Curie was the first woman to ...

This quote, usually attributed to Voltaire, was not his. It was a summary of his attitude ... French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau credited the phrase “Qu’ils mangent de la brioche” to a “great ...