Voltaire (redirect from François-Marie Voltaire)
/vɔːl-/; French: [vɔltɛːʁ]), was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher (philosophe), satirist, and historian. Famous for his wit and his criticism of Christianity...
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physician (born 1668) August 6 – Jean-Baptiste Du Hamel, French scientist, philosophe (born 1624) Date unknown – Jean Le Fèvre, French astronomer (born 1652)...
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du positivisme logique in Histoire de la philosophie, vol. 4. Ed. François Châtelet 1971: La parole malheureuse. De l'Alchimie linguistique à la grammaire...
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau (category Philosophes)
[ʒɑ̃ ʒak ʁuso]; 28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778) was a Genevan philosopher (philosophe), writer, and composer. His political philosophy influenced the progress...
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visit seemed a bit like the beginning of a novel." Both the lady and the philosophe laughed heartily, and she accepted an invitation to stay for a simple...
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(Spring 1991), "The Dean Street Style of Revolution: J-P. Brissot, Jeune Philosophe", French Historical Studies, 17 (1): 159–90, doi:10.2307/286283, JSTOR 286283...
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Charles-Jean-François Hénault, Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, a bust of Voltaire, Charles-Augustin de Ferriol d'Argental, Jean François de Saint-Lambert...
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Morin, Mes philosophes Brigitte Chamak, "Le Groupe des Dix" "Edgar Morin, Mes philosophes[permanent dead link] "Edgar Morin, Mes philosophes [1][permanent...
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common with the beaux esprits of the 17th century, as well as with the philosophes of the 18th. But it is to the latter rather than to the former period...
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act and in prose, with Jean-François-Alfred Bayard 1827: L'Oncle Philibert, comedy in 1 act and in prose, with Jean-François-Alfred Bayard 1830: Ma place...
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authors belonging, in large part, to the intellectual group known as the philosophes. They promoted the advancement of science and secular thought and supported...
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van Bunge, Wiep; Bots, Hans (4 June 2008). Pierre Bayle (1647-1706), Le Philosophe de Rotterdam: Philosophy, Religion and Reception: Selected Papers of the...
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163; original: "Qu'est-ce qu'un dispositif ?" in Association pour le Centre Michel Foucault, Michel Foucault, philosophe, Seuil, 1989, p. 189. v t e...
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Paris hangman. It had far-reaching negative effects on the rest of the philosophes, in particular, Denis Diderot, and the work he was doing on the Encyclopédie...
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[citation needed] In 1727, Jeanne Quinault created the role of Céliante in Le Philosophe marié by Philippe Néricault Destouches. It was an ideal role for her,...
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Helvétius, reinforced Marat's growing sense of a widening gulf between the philosophes, grouped around Voltaire on one hand, and their opponents, loosely grouped...
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popularization of science among an increasingly literate population. Philosophes introduced the public to many scientific theories, most notably through...
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Rossignol by Igor Stravinsky, Théâtre du Châtelet 1997 : Pierrot lunaire by Arnold Schoenberg, Théâtre du Châtelet 1998 : Le Grand Macabre by György Ligeti...
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It was during this period that she first read Voltaire and the other philosophes of the French Enlightenment. As she learned Russian, she became increasingly...
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Hauterive, Attinger, 1994. p. 229-243 Isabelle Vissière, Un militaire philosophe: Constant d'Hermenches, In: L'armée au XVIIIe siècle (1715-1789). Actes...
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discovery of Hinduism and Buddhism. Azurmendi, Joxe (1984). Entretien d'un philosophe: Diderot (1713–1784), Jakin, 32: 111–121. Ballstadt, Kurt P.A. Diderot:...
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Rossinot, André; Haymann, Emmanuel (2004). Stanislas, le roi philosophe. Paris: Michel Lafon. p. 93. Lundh-Eriksson, Nanna (1947). Hedvig Eleonora...
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apparent to anyone. Paine also used a notion of "common sense" favored by philosophes in the Continental Enlightenment. They held that common sense could refute...
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La Mettrie, Louis de Jaucourt, Jean-François Marmontel, Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, Montesquieu, François Quesnay, Antoine Destutt de Tracy, Anne...
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by a change in outlook as advocated by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Philosophes, the winter of 1774–1775 witnessed a complete replanting of the gardens...
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Baron d'Holbach (category Philosophes)
raised in Paris by his uncle Franz Adam Holbach (or Adam François d'Holbach or Messire François-Adam, Baron d'Holbach, Seigneur de Heeze, Leende et autres...
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hwwilsonweb.com (Accessed December 26, 2005) Roger, Jacques 1989. Buffon: un philosophe au Jardin du Roi Paris: Fayard. pp 434–5 Jefferson, Thomas, Notes on the...
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the Procureur-General of the Parliament, the Civil Lieutenant of the Châtelet, and the Secretary of State of the King's Household, who had the title...
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considered herself an enlightened despot. She read the most prominent philosophes of the day, including Montesquieu and Voltaire and tried to adhere to...
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1802) January 18 – Louis Claude de Saint-Martin, French philosopher, "le philosophe inconnu" (d. 1803) January 25 – Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, German philosopher...
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