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100 1 $aPearson, Roger.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87872981
245 10 $aVoltaire almighty :$ba life in pursuit of freedom /$cRoger Pearson.
250 $a1st U.S. ed.
260 $aNew York :$bBloomsbury :$bDistributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck,$c2005.
300 $axxxii, 447 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations, portraits (some color) ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [433]-436) and index.
520 1 $a"In this new biography of Voltaire, Roger Pearson provides a lively look at the life and thought of one of the major forces behind the European Enlightenment. A rebel from start to finish (1694-1778), Voltaire was an ailing and unwanted bastard child who refused to die; and when he did consent to expire some eighty-four years later, he secured a Christian burial despite a bishop's ban." "Voltaire's plays and verse made him the toast of society, but the author of Candide and The Philosophical Dictionary was a tireless self-promoter and controversial figure who frequently inspired as much ire as adulation. By the age of forty, he had been jailed twice and exiled once. An advocate of human rights, he was an outspoken critic of religious intolerance and persecution; when in flight from Frederick the Great, his one-time friend and philosophical ally, he wanted to return to his native France but was rebuffed by the king, who exiled him yet again." "Voltaire's personal life was as colorful as his intellectual life. Of independent means and mind, he never married, but he had long-term affairs with two women: The first was Emilie Chatelet, his intellectual equal. A renowned scientist married to a French bureaucrat, she died while giving birth to yet another man's child. The second, Mary Louise Denis, his niece, twenty years his junior, remained with her esteemed uncle for the last two decades of his life." "The consummate outsider, a dissenter who craved acceptance while flamboyantly disdaining it, author of countless stories, poems, books, plays, treatises, and tracts as well as some twenty thousand letters to his friends: Voltaire had a long and active life, all for the cause of freedom - his own and others'."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aVoltaire,$d1694-1778.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80126267
650 0 $aAuthors, French$y18th century$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100554
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