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Book reviews: Voltaire In Exile: Justice for the people's hero
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VOLTAIRE IN EXILE
Ian Davidson
Atlantic, GBP 19.99
CELEBRITY is not a recent invention. Long before Hello! and OK!
ever hit the news-stands there were people who were famous for being
famous - and the grand-daddy of them all was Francois Marie Arouet,
better known as Voltaire.
Even to his contemporaries, Voltaire was the undisputed 'man of
the century', a shining symbol of Enlightenment values. But what
exactly did he do? Nowadays we think of him as somehow having
triggered the French Revolution, thanks to political agitating that
saw him exiled from his native France. But, as Ian Davidson ...
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