/vɔːl-/; French: [vɔltɛːʁ]), was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher (philosophe), satirist, and historian. Famous for his wit and his criticism of Christianity...

physician (born 1668) August 6 – Jean-Baptiste Du Hamel, French scientist, philosophe (born 1624) Date unknown – Jean Le Fèvre, French astronomer (born 1652)...

du positivisme logique in Histoire de la philosophie, vol. 4. Ed. François Châtelet 1971: La parole malheureuse. De l'Alchimie linguistique à la grammaire...

[ʒɑ̃ ʒak ʁuso]; 28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778) was a Genevan philosopher (philosophe), writer, and composer. His political philosophy influenced the progress...

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...

(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...

Charles-Jean-François Hénault, Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, a bust of Voltaire, Charles-Augustin de Ferriol d'Argental, Jean François de Saint-Lambert...

Morin, Mes philosophes Brigitte Chamak, "Le Groupe des Dix" "Edgar Morin, Mes philosophes[permanent dead link] "Edgar Morin, Mes philosophes [1][permanent...

van Bunge, Wiep; Bots, Hans (4 June 2008). Pierre Bayle (1647-1706), Le Philosophe de Rotterdam: Philosophy, Religion and Reception: Selected Papers of the...

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...

authors belonging, in large part, to the intellectual group known as the philosophes. They promoted the advancement of science and secular thought and supported...

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...

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...

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...

[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,...

Helvétius, reinforced Marat's growing sense of a widening gulf between the philosophes, grouped around Voltaire on one hand, and their opponents, loosely grouped...

popularization of science among an increasingly literate population. Philosophes introduced the public to many scientific theories, most notably through...

Rossignol by Igor Stravinsky, Théâtre du Châtelet 1997 : Pierrot lunaire by Arnold Schoenberg, Théâtre du Châtelet 1998 : Le Grand Macabre by György Ligeti...

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...

Hauterive, Attinger, 1994. p. 229-243 Isabelle Vissière, Un militaire philosophe: Constant d'Hermenches, In: L'armée au XVIIIe siècle (1715-1789). Actes...

Rossinot, André; Haymann, Emmanuel (2004). Stanislas, le roi philosophe. Paris: Michel Lafon. p. 93. Lundh-Eriksson, Nanna (1947). Hedvig Eleonora...

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...

La Mettrie, Louis de Jaucourt, Jean-François Marmontel, Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, Montesquieu, François Quesnay, Antoine Destutt de Tracy, Anne...

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...

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...

discovery of Hinduism and Buddhism. Azurmendi, Joxe (1984). Entretien d'un philosophe: Diderot (1713–1784), Jakin, 32: 111–121. Ballstadt, Kurt P.A. Diderot:...

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...

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...

considered herself an enlightened despot. She read the most prominent philosophes of the day, including Montesquieu and Voltaire and tried to adhere to...

1802) January 18 – Louis Claude de Saint-Martin, French philosopher, "le philosophe inconnu" (d. 1803) January 25 – Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, German philosopher...