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Book review: Voltaire Almighty: The best of all possible yarns
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Voltaire Almighty
Roger Pearson
Bloomsbury, GBP 18.99
WE HAVE all heard of Voltaire, but why exactly is he famous? Our
usual picture is of someone who spoke out against the monarchy and
the Catholic Church in pre-revolutionary France, ended up living in
permanent exile, and wrote a book called Candide. A kind of Salman
Rushdie of the 18th century, perhaps. But while there is truth in the
sketch, the real man - revealed in this fascinating biography - was
infinitely more complex. Voltaire was a genius and a rascal. If he is
remembered as the former rather than the latter, it is largely down ...
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