Author: Evelyn Beatrice HallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
The Friends of Voltaire
Author: Evelyn Beatrice HallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
The Friends of Voltaire
Author: Evelyn Beatrice HallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
The Friends of Voltaire
Author: S. TallentyrePublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781986794725
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
The Friends of Voltaire, written by Evelyn Beatrice Hall under the pseudonym S. G. Tallentyre, was published in 1906.The book is in the form of an anecdotal biography telling the stories of ten men whose lives fell very closely together. The ten men were true contemporaries and aside from their friendship with Voltaire they were more or less closely associated with one another. Each of the ten is characterized by giving him an identifying label: d'Alembert the Thinker, Diderot the Talker, Galiani the Wit, Vauvenargues the Aphorist, d'Holbach the Host, Grimm the Journalist, Helvétius the Contradiction, Turgot the Statesman, Beaumarchais the Playwright, and Condorcet the Aristocrat In 1907 it was published in Great Britain under the author's own name by G. P. Putnam's Sons. This classic work about Voltaire was still being printed nearly 100 years later in 2003.
The Friends Of Voltaire
Author: Evelyn Beatrice HallPublisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781011296071
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
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The Friends of Voltaire
Author: S. G. TallentyrePublisher:
ISBN: 9781791885342
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The Friends of Voltaire, written by Evelyn Beatrice Hall under the pseudonym S. G. Tallentyre, was published in 1906. The book is in the form of an anecdotal biography telling the stories of ten men whose lives fell very closely together. The ten men were true contemporaries and aside from their friendship with Voltaire they were more or less closely associated with one another. Each of the ten is characterized by giving him an identifying label: d'Alembert the Thinker, Diderot the Talker, Galiani the Wit, Vauvenargues the Aphorist, d'Holbach the Host, Grimm the Journalist, Helvétius the Contradiction, Turgot the Statesman, Beaumarchais the Playwright, and Condorcet the Aristocrat.
The Friends of Voltaire
Author: Evelyn Beatrice HallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The Friends of Voltaire
Author: Stephen G. TallentyrePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Voltaire in Love
Author: Nancy MitfordPublisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590175786
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
The inimitable Nancy Mitford’s account of Voltaire’s fifteen-year relationship with the Marquise du Châtelet—the renowned mathematician who introduced Isaac Newton’s revolutionary new physics to France—is a spirited romp in the company of two extraordinary individuals as well as an erudite and gossipy guide to French high society during the Enlightenment. Mitford’s story is as delicious as it is complicated. The marquise was in love with another mathematician, Maupertuis, while she had an unexpected rival for Voltaire’s affections in the future Frederick the Great of Prussia (and later in the philosophe’s own niece). There was, at least, no jealous husband to contend with: the Marquis du Châtelet, Mitford assures us, behaved perfectly. The beau monde of Paris was, however, distraught at the idea of the lovers’ brilliant conversation going to waste on the windswept hills of Champagne, site of the Château de Cirey, where experimental laboratories, a darkroom, and a library of more than twenty-one thousand volumes enabled them to pursue their amours philosophiques. From time to time the threat of impending arrest would send Voltaire scurrying across the border into Holland, but his irrepressible charm—and the interventions of powerful friends—always made it possible for him resume his studies with the cherished marquise.
The Friends of Voltaire
Author: Stephen G. TallentyrePublisher:
ISBN: 9780827423770
Category : Enlightenment
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
CONTENTS DÆAlembert: The Thinker (1717-1783) Diderot: The Talker (1713-1784) Galiani: The Wit (1728-1787) Vauvenargues: The Aphorist (1715-1747) DÆHolbach: The Host (1723-1789) Grimm: The Journalist (1723-1807) Helvétius: The Contradiction (1715-1771) Turgot: The Statesman (1727-1781) Beaumarchais: The Playwright (1732-1799) Condorcet: The Aristocrat (1743-1794) Index
Voltaire Almighty
Author: Roger PearsonPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408820803
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
During much of his life Voltaire's plays and verse made him the toast of society, but his barbed wit and commitment to reason also got him into trouble. Jailed twice and eventually banished by the King, he was an outspoken critic of religious intolerance and persecution. His personal life was as colourful as his intellectual one. Voltaire never married, but had long-term affairs with two women: Emilie, who died after giving birth to the child of another lover, and his niece, Marie-Louise, with whom he spent his last twenty-five years. With its tales of illegitimacy, prison, stardom, exile, love affairs and tireless battles against critics, Church and King, Roger Pearson's brilliant biography brings Voltaire vividly to life.