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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Antisemitism (section Voltaire)
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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Pierre Beaumarchais (section The Voltaire revival)
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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