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Shakespeare and Voltaire, among others, were lavish in their praise, and today’s island visitors can still sample the excellent wine in bodegas, restaurants, or even from the supermercado.
Diderot’s Encyclopédie championed reason over traditional religion, Rousseau discoursed on the origins of inequality, Voltaire shot at everything that didn’t move.
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.
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.”