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Stimulated by the ideas of Voltaire, Rousseau, and Diderot, the country’s intellectuals were more keenly aware of being Europeans, but also Italians.
The Carré Rive Gauche, bounded by the quai Voltaire, the boulevard St-Germain, and the rues du Bac and des Sts-Pères, is something of a museum of ancient Egyptian, Chinese, pre-Columbian, African, and Polynesian art, as well as Louis XV, Second Empire, Art Nouveau, and Art Deco.
In the Hôtel Lambert, on the corner of the rue St-Louis-en-l’Ile, Voltaire once enjoyed a tempestuous love affair with the lady of the house, the Marquise du Châtelet.
Similarly for Voltaire (not funny), Thomas Fuller (The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir--clever but not funny), and Bertrand Russell (There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge--wise but not funny), and Sigmund Freud (Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar--a straight line funny only to us).
The Random House lexicographer Jesse Sheidlower has found a reference to it in a passage from Varieties of Religious Experience , in which William James quotes words of Voltaire, for which he gives the date 1773: "All comes out at the end of the day, and all comes out still more even when all the days are over."