The Friends of Voltaire by Evelyn Beatrice Hall
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"The Friends of Voltaire" by Evelyn Beatrice Hall is an anecdotal biography published in 1906. The book explores the lives of ten prominent 18th-century French Enlightenment figures through their connections to Voltaire. Each man receives a distinctive label—from d'Alembert the Thinker to Condorcet the Aristocrat—as Hall weaves together their intertwined stories. The work notably contains a phrase summarizing Voltaire's views on free speech that would later be widely misattributed as his own
words, becoming one of history's most famous quotations. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Hall, Evelyn Beatrice, 1868-1956 |
|---|---|
| Title | The Friends of Voltaire |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Friends_of_Voltaire |
| Contents | D'Alembert: the thinker (1717-1783) -- Diderot: the talker (1713-1784) -- Galiani: the wit (1728-1787) -- Vauvenargues: the aphorist (1715-1747) -- D'Holbach: the host (1723-1789) -- Grimm: the journalist (1723-1807) -- Helvétius: the contradiction (1715-1771) -- Turgot: the statesman (1727-1871) -- Beaumarchais: the playwright (1732-1799) -- Condorcet: the aristocrat (1743-1794). |
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Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images available at The Internet Archive) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 65.9 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | CT: History: Biography |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | France -- Biography |
| Subject | Voltaire, 1694-1778 -- Friends and associates |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 56618 |
| Release Date | Feb 21, 2018 |
| Last Update | Jan 24, 2021 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 759 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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