The Friends of Voltaire

Name: The Friends of Voltaire
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Author: Evelyn Beatrice Hall

by Evelyn Beatrice Hall

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"The friends of Voltaire" is written in the form of a biography with anecdotes from the lives of ten men whose lives were intertwined with Voltaire's. They were contemporaries and, apart from their friendship with Voltaire, were more or less closely related to each other. Each of them is accompanied by a The chapter on Helvétius contains a famous quotation that was subsequently misattributed to Voltaire himself. While discussing the persecution of Helvétius for his book "On the Mind" (which was publicly burned), Hall What the book could never have done for itself, or for its author, persecutio...

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THE FRIENDS OF VOLTAIRE
CONTENTS
PORTRAITS
SOME SOURCES OF INFORMATION
THE FRIENDS OF VOLTAIRE I D’ALEMBERT: THE THINKER
II DIDEROT: THE TALKER
III GALIANI: THE WIT.
IV VAUVENARGUES: THE APHORIST
V D’HOLBACH: THE HOST
VI GRIMM: THE JOURNALIST
VII HELVÉTIUS: THE CONTRADICTION
VIII TURGOT: THE STATESMAN
IX BEAUMARCHAIS: THE PLAYWRIGHT
X CONDORCET: THE ARISTOCRAT
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