  Today is the birthday of Francois-Marie Arouet, better known as Voltaire (1694-1778): champion everywhere of freedom: of speech, of religion, of trade, etc etc. Though he wrote history, poetry and drama as well I’ve only read his satirical prose, works like Candide,  Zadig,  Micromegas etc (mostly because that’s what’s translated and available). When I first [...]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 01:38PM on November 21, 2012