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To see Pol Pot today is to be reminded of Voltaire: "We must cultivate our ..."
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.
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.
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).
Stimulated by the ideas of Voltaire, Rousseau, and Diderot, the country’s intellectuals were more keenly aware of being Europeans, but also Italians.