aʁwɛ]; 21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778), known by his nom de plume M. de Voltaire (/vɒlˈtɛər, voʊl-/; also US: /vɔːl-/; French: [vɔltɛːʁ]), was a French...
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Ould-Yaou as Yves, blouson noir gang member Amira Casar as Irène Anne Le Guernec as Alice (Ep 5) Voltaire High: Abbaye royale, Saint-Jean-d'Angély, France Magnan...
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Irène is a tragedy in five acts by Voltaire, and his penultimate play. It was written in 1776–1777 and premiered in Paris on March 16, 1778. Recent scholarship...
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and the Hendersons Irene (play), a play written by Samuel Johnson between 1726 and 1749 Irène (tragedy), a 1778 play by Voltaire "Irene", an 1831 poem by...
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Cabaret Voltaire was the name of a short-lived nightclub in Zürich, Switzerland in 1916, revived in the 21st century. It was founded by Hugo Ball, with...
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Émilie du Châtelet (section Relationship with Voltaire)
also known as the intellectual collaborator with and romantic partner of Voltaire. Numerous biographies, books and plays have been written about her life...
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presentation of Irène, after which the bust of Voltaire was crowned, Saint-Marc improvised this quatrain which made him famous: Voltaire, reçois la couronne...
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Cabaret Voltaire was a one-issue Dadaist art magazine which was published in May 1916 in Zürich, Switzerland. Its subtitle was eine Sammlung künstlerischer...
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Works of Voltaire (Œuvres complètes de Voltaire), as well as Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment (previously SVEC, Studies on Voltaire and the...
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20th century, with early centres in Zürich, Switzerland, at the Cabaret Voltaire (in 1916), founded by Hugo Ball with his companion Emmy Hennings, and in...
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Agathocle (category Plays by Voltaire)
last dramatic tragedy by Voltaire. It was written by the 84-year-old author in 1777 almost simultaneously with the tragedy Irène, only months before he...
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Juliette Gosselin, Sébastien Huberdeau, Gérard Depardieu, Bianca Gervais, Irène Jacob, Pierre Lebeau, Vincent Pérez, Isabel Richer, Tim Roth, Jason Isaacs...
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Voltaire is a 1933 American pre-Code biographical film directed by John G. Adolfi and starring George Arliss as Voltaire, an 18th-century French writer...
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York Nicholas Cronk, Professor of French Literature and Director of the Voltaire Foundation at the University of Oxford Caroline Warman, Lecturer in French...
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Candide (operetta) (category Operas based on works by Voltaire)
the poet Richard Wilbur, based on the 1759 novella of the same name by Voltaire. Other contributors to the text were John Latouche, Dorothy Parker, Lillian...
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Euripides. She is also the central figure in plays by Aeschylus, Alfieri, Voltaire, Hofmannsthal, and Eugene O'Neill. She is a vengeful soul in The Libation...
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Sophonisbe (tragedy) (category Plays by Voltaire)
took a break from writing tragedies until 1777, when he wrote Irène and Agathocle. Voltaire had arranged the printing of the work in late 1769 with the...
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cartridge parval – parole tamret – stool bankh -bench voltaire – rocking chair (from the French writer Voltaire) Aapa – Father from Kannada appa Aaka – Sister...
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Mallet family (redirect from Irène Mallet)
on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century. Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century. Vol. 241. Voltaire Foundation; Institut et Musée Voltaire. p. 173...
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de Clèves Alain-René Le Sage (1668–1747) Pierre de Marivaux (1688–1763) Voltaire (1694–1778), philosophe, satirist, playwright, author of Candide Françoise...
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the support of Racine and Voltaire, and for French playwrights they became hard rules, and a heresy to disobey them. Voltaire said: All nations begin to...
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him as the first constitutional monarch and protector of freemen, but Voltaire saw him as a despotic ruler and representative of the medieval period as...
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Tancrède (tragedy) (category Plays by Voltaire)
Tancrède is a tragedy in five acts by Voltaire that premiered on 3 September 1760. The character names Tancrède and Aménaïde are taken from Torquato Tasso's...
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Best Actress award for Poetical Refugee (original French title La faute à Voltaire) at the Cologne Mediterranean Film Festival-2001. In the fall of 2005,...
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Brutus (tragedy) (category Plays by Voltaire)
Brutus is a tragedy in five acts by Voltaire. He began work on the play in 1727 in England and completed it in 1729. It premiered on 11 December 1730 in...
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friends. Smoki Whitfield appears as the Ticket Clerk. 269 21 "All This and Voltaire Too?" Lawrence Dobkin Erna Lazarus February 5, 1966 (1966-02-05) Donna...
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sculpture's empty chair and read an address written for the occasion by Irène Frachon, the French specialist who exposed the dangers of the antidiabetic...
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Maman The Green Belt The Neuilly Fair The Birth of a Master Black Masks Irène The Letters The Cuckoo The House (adapted as an episode of Night Gallery)...
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Goldoni Muriel Mayette-Holtz 2009 The Plough and the Stars Sean O'Casey Irène Bonnaud 2011 One Thousand and One Nights Tim Supple & Hanan El-Cheikh Tim...
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MacLean A Burnt-Out Case Dr. Colin Graham Greene Candide Dr. Pangloss Voltaire Catch-22 Dr. "Doc" Daneeka Joseph Heller Chromosome 6 Dr. Jack Stapleton...
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