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This Isn't What Voltaire Had in Mind

This Isn't What Voltaire Had in Mind

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Brian Griffiths
Sep 03, 2024
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In writing about Voltaire in 1906, Evelyn Beatrice Hall wrote:

‘What a fuss about an omelette!’ he had exclaimed when he heard of the burning. How abominably unjust to persecute a man for such an airy…

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