The line “I Disapprove of What You Say…” gets tossed around so casually that many people assume it came straight from Voltaire’s quill. Dig into the record, though, and the story flips. The quote wasn ...

Founded by former criminal trial attorney and avid e-biker Jamie Gilson in 2014, Voltaire Cycles has become a leader in the e-mobility market. Voltaire Cycles offers a variety of electric bikes, ...

A famous Enlightenment era writer and philosopher, Voltaire made a splash with his first play, Oedipe. Wikimedia Commons François-Marie d’Arouet was the kind of precocious teen who always got invited ...

It’s fitting to celebrate the writer Voltaire—born François-Marie Arouet—on Bastille Day, given that he himself was imprisoned there early in his writing career. As an Enlightenment philosopher and ...

Like most bookshops around Paris, Emile, which caters to young readers, sold all its copies of Voltaire's Treatise on Tolerance on Jan. 8, the day after two gunmen stormed into satirical magazine ...

If you’re looking for an intriguing thought or quote about tolerance, acknowledging how little we humans know, or simply staying positive, look no further than Voltaire, or François-Marie Arouet. He ...

IN his genial progress from battlefield to battlefield of old Shakespearean Wars, Professor Thomas R. Lounsbury comes in his second volume 1 to the scene of that dread conflict once so bitterly waged ...

"Voltaire's voice is the voice of the Enlightenment", Ian Davidson states in his prologue, but this biography expands greatly on the image of Voltaire the philosophe, outlining his consuming ambition, ...