While always serious, Voltaire's writings were poisonous with wit, sarcasm and irony. And the irony of his life was that while he dropped out of law school complaining about "the vast amount of ...

They are the heartfelt correspondence from the great acerbic wit of the European Enlightenment to the last Russian empress, in which he praises her authoritarian style and mocks the extravagances of ...

Voltaire, the great 18th-century prophet of the Enlightenment, may have been archetypally French but he could certainly write fluent English and went so far as to Anglicise his first name, ...

Secularisation is an unworthy expression for the men and women of the Enlightenment ― like Voltaire and Mary Wollstonecraft ― who were electrified by a certain perception of God, however heterodox it ...

In the frontispiece to Voltaire's book on Newton's philosophy, Voltaire's lover Émilie du Châtelet appears as Voltaire's muse, reflecting Newton's heavenly insights down to Voltaire. 1738. Wikicommons ...