She studied botany and ornithology, and established a salon to support philosophers, including Voltaire.
In this one the contestants invoke Voltaire on the streets and murmur sweet nothings in bed.
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There the bodies of Voltaire and Rousseau were laid to rest with the blessing of the French state.
Finally, there is a nearly 250-year-old quote from Voltaire that forms the third leg of my modeling philosophy.
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Hagel also recalled family war history during a private meeting Saturday with Philippines Secretary of National Defense Voltaire Gazmin.
He is the youngest member of the French Academy, the official guardian of the language of Voltaire and Flaubert.
Lavalas moderates, such as Leslie Voltaire, a former minister, insist that the party has a future without Mr Aristide.
He also counselled the Palestinians to read Voltaire and Rousseau, which was odd advice coming from an admirer of Vladimir Putin.
Even the French, somewhat better informed, tend to remember him only as the Prussian king who had the wit to befriend Voltaire.
Voltaire, he insists, was a milquetoast careerist, too concerned with his own reputation and his comfortable life to say anything truly unsettling.
He was a man of the Enlightenment, a reader of Adam Smith and John Locke as well as of Voltaire and Rousseau.
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That distinction belongs to the not very distinguished biographer of Voltaire, S.G.
Though the French philosopher, Voltaire, and Uncle Ben from Spiderman have both spoken these words, this expression is especially true of social media.
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Likes for "beerpong, " "Chris Tucker" and "cheerleading" were strong predictors of an extrovert while "role playing games, " "Anime" and "Voltaire" pointed to introverted personality types.
Published in the UK as VOLTAIRE'S COCONUTS: OR ANGLOMANIA IN EUROPE.
Consider the class of 1980, known as the promotion Voltaire.
Mikati might quote Voltaire, but he had to fall back on realpolitik to explain to his Twitter followers yesterday why Lebanon voted against suspending Syria from the Arab League.
Though the name may suggest an American mock-British theme pub, the Cheshire Cheese has been around since the Great Fire and former patrons include James Boswell, Voltaire, Thackeray and Dickens.
Much of his reasoning will be familiar to the devotees of anti-clerical writers such as Voltaire or openly godless ones such as Russell, but the overall structure of his approach is new.
It is a tragedy of history, the author concludes, that Voltaire and Rousseau won the battle of ideas, whereas Diderot was reduced to the rank of editor of the encyclopedia, and Holbach was forgotten utterly.
The eighteenth century was the French century: Rousseau, Voltaire, Versailles and the court of the Sun King Louis the Fourteenth, Buffon and the Jardin des Plantes, Paris buzzing with the discourse of the enlightenment and the new supremacy of scientific method.
Madame Tussaud was born Marie Grosholtz in France in 1761, and learned to sculpt wax as a teenager -- her early subjects included Voltaire and Benjamin Franklin -- and went on to become a favorite of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.
The entertaining episode also features a guest appearance from pinball designer John Popaduik who, through his work at electronic gaming manufacturer Williams Bally Midway, played an integral role in the design process for pinball machines such as Circus Voltaire and Theatre of Magic.
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