'I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.'Evelyn Beatrice Hall (1868-1956) followed up her biography of Voltaire with this volume with short biographies of ten of his contemporaries, associates and prot???g???s: D'Alembert, Diderot, Galiani, Vauvernagues, D'Holbach, Grimm, Helv???tius, Turgot, Beaumarchais, and Condorcet. Her ten sketches provide a rich portrait of intellectual life in pre-revolutionary France and help us understand a world that was about to be turned upside down by ...
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'I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.'Evelyn Beatrice Hall (1868-1956) followed up her biography of Voltaire with this volume with short biographies of ten of his contemporaries, associates and prot???g???s: D'Alembert, Diderot, Galiani, Vauvernagues, D'Holbach, Grimm, Helv???tius, Turgot, Beaumarchais, and Condorcet. Her ten sketches provide a rich portrait of intellectual life in pre-revolutionary France and help us understand a world that was about to be turned upside down by the Revolution.
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