The Friends of Voltaire by Evelyn Beatrice Hall
"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 |
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| 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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| 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 |
| Most Recently Updated | Jan 24, 2021 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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