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    The Voltaire Falls (French: Chutes Voltaire) is a series of waterfalls in the Voltaire Creek in French Guiana, France. The Voltaire Falls are the largest...
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    of solid sides on chutes and crowd pens to prevent animals from seeing out with their wide-angle vision and layout of curved chutes and round crowd pens...
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  • the Jew." Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 26 (1963): 1177. Poliakov, L. The History of Anti-Semitism: From Voltaire to Wagner. Routledge...
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    Republic in 1780. Shortly after the death of Voltaire in 1778, Beaumarchais set out to publish Voltaire's complete works, many of which were banned in...
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  • Bork (producer); William H. Matthews c-18m September 21, 1973 video [865] Voltaire Presents "Candide": An Introduction to the Age of Enlightenment John Barnes...
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    Devil-lore, Volume 2. H. Holt. p. 249. The Works of Voltaire: The Dramatic Works of Voltaire. Voltaire, Tobias George Smollett, John Morley, William F. Fleming...
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    Lamartine spent his youth at the family estate. In his youth he read Fénelon, Voltaire, Parny, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Racine, Tasso, Dante, Petrarch, Mme...
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    February 2005). "Albert Mathiez (1874–1932), La Révolution française: La chute de la Royauté; La Gironde et la Montagne; La Terreur". texte. Moore 2007...
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    l'étranger is 'foreigner'; 1942) The Plague (La Peste, 1947) The Fall (La Chute, 1956) The First Man (Le premier homme; incomplete, published 1994) Exile...
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    society, an effort inspired in part by the writings and philosophy of Voltaire. In August 1789, the new National Assembly abolished tithes, the mandatory...
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  • time to writing biographies for different figures including Mussolini, Voltaire, Garibaldi and Napoleon III. De Versailles à Berlin (1919–1945) Fascisme...
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    New Atlantis by Francis Bacon, Erewhon by Samuel Butler, and Candide by Voltaire. Although Utopianism combined classical concepts of perfect societies (Plato...
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    Veron, Arnault (22 March 2024). "Le secteur du transport en commun en chute libre". Le National (in French). Archived from the original on 23 March...
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    brought to Victorian England and it was published in the United States as Chutes and Ladders (an "improved new version of England's famous indoor sport")...
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  • Smith Spencer de Staël Stirner Taine Thoreau Tocqueville Vico Vivekananda Voltaire 20th and 21st centuries Adorno Agamben Arendt Aron Badiou Baudrillard Bauman...
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    along with several light anti-aircraft machine guns. Two depth charge chutes were added to the stern, but no anti-submarine detection equipment was supplied...
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    ("Shell") Deschutes County ("of the falls") Deschutes River (from rivière des chutes meaning river of the falls) Deschutes National Forest (Waterfalls National...
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    nature Schools By region Philosophers Milton Locke Spinoza Montesquieu Voltaire Rousseau Smith Kant Turgot Burke Priestley Paine Beccaria Condorcet Bentham...
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    (contributions to liberal theory) Philosophers Milton Locke Spinoza Montesquieu Voltaire Rousseau Smith Kant Turgot Burke Priestley Paine Beccaria Condorcet Bentham...
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    Chirac moved into a 180-square-metre (1,900 sq ft) duplex on the Quai Voltaire in Paris lent to him by the family of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik...
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    2014. Reference Jeanne Rucar, "Memorias de una mujer sin piano". Cabaret Voltaire, Spain 1990. Fuentes, Carlos (20 August 2007). "The Milky Way: The Heretic's...
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    Guitta also criticized Ramadan for his campaign against the performance of Voltaire's play Mahomet in Geneva. After the lifting of the visa revocation, an article...
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  • Johnson was thinking of what he could show at an exhibition at Studio Voltaire called "Ausgang". This was to commemorate the Golden Jubilee of HRH Queen...
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  • Pierre Mertens for Les chutes centrales 2008: Jérôme Garcin for L'ami Butler 2007: Jacques-Pierre Amette for Un été chez Voltaire 2006: Philippe Sollers...
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    His uncle by marriage was the prominent pastor Jacob Vernes, a friend of Voltaire and Rousseau. The future historian was well educated, but his family wished...
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    of Picardy. His mother was a great-grandniece of the famous philosopher Voltaire. He inherited the double surname from his father, who was descended on...
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    was begun by a group of artists and poets associated with the Cabaret Voltaire in Zürich. Dada rejected reason and logic, prizing nonsense, irrationality...
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  • Lefèvre, Madame Dacier, meets Antoine Houdar de la Motte in person. May – Voltaire is exiled to Tulle as a result of his lampoon on the regent of France,...
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  • censorship." He is the General Editor and Senior Research Fellow at the Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford, for the Oxford University Studies in...
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    known in the great Parisian salons, meeting influential figures such as Voltaire, Edward Gibbon, the duc d'Orléans and the Marquis de Lafayette, and becoming...
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