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After the morose twilight years of the Sun King, the societal tone changed with the satiric pen of Voltaire and the erotic fantasies of Watteau’s paintings and Marivaux’s comedies.
After 150 years of courageous struggle against the harsh Canadian wilderness, New France was abandoned, the old country displaying a cruel lack of enthusiasm for what Voltaire dismissed as quelques arpens de neige — “a few acres of snow.”
To see Pol Pot today is to be reminded of Voltaire: "We must cultivate our ..."
Diderot’s Encyclopédie championed reason over traditional religion, Rousseau discoursed on the origins of inequality, Voltaire shot at everything that didn’t move.
In a foreword to Duke's latest book, a 700-page autobiography judged by hate group watchers to be the most naked statement yet of the former KKK grand wizard's racist views, Whitney calls Duke a "seeker of truth," comparing him to Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire and declaring his vision of racially segregated societies to be based on "good science."