The play is made up of selected letter exchanges between the great French-European philosopher and the royal prince ... and ending with the eulogy Frederick II wrote when Voltaire died in 1778. Their ...

In 1756, Voltaire published a long, mournful poem on the Lisbon earthquake. In it, he calls out, “Come, ye philosophers, who ...

Writer and philosopher Voltaire, loyal to his king, Louis XV of France, nonetheless writes scathingly of the king's disdain for the rights and needs of his people. Louis admires Voltaire ...

At his ancient ‘imperial’ home in Molete, Ibadan last Thursday, I wrote in the condolence register: “He was a man, like French philosopher, Voltaire, who had trapped inside a single skull the brains ...

Mr Justice Michael Twomey quoted French philosopher Voltaire when telling all three businessmen it is possibly years they will never get back.