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The Multi-Tasking Marquise
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The Multi-Tasking Marquise
FOR ANYONE - AN ARTIST, A THINKER, AN ATHLETE - who aspires to fame or glory, proximity to someone more famous is a mixed blessing. Take the example of Henry James and Edith Wharton: Wharton gained prestige, certainly, by her close friendship with this widely acknowledged great man, but their association meant that she had to struggle to be taken seriously as an important novelist in her own right, rather than as merely the great man's satellite.
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The Multi-Tasking Marquise
The Hudson Review
; The Multi-Tasking Marquise FOR ANYONE - AN ARTIST, A THINKER, AN ATHLETE - who aspires to fame or glory, proximity to someone more famous is a mixed blessing. Take the example of Henry James and Edith Wharton: Wharton gained prestige, certainly, by her close friendship with this widely acknowledged
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Book review: Voltaire Almighty: The best of all possible yarns
Scotland on Sunday
; 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
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Lives Anne Chisholm on the woman who taught voltaire love and geometry
The Sunday Telegraph London
; Voltaire and Emilie: Passionate Minds BY DAVID BODANIS LITTLE, BROWN, pounds 17.99, 312 pp T pounds 15.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 The story of Voltaire and the most brilliant of his mistresses, Madame du Chtelet, is hardly new; but it is well worth retelling. David Bodanis is a recognised
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Biography Munro Price on the ambitious, hypocritical and heroic Voltaire
The Sunday Telegraph London
; ... historical side, the fact that the Comte de Maurepas was Chancellor of France during the famous Calas case would have come as news to the real incumbent, Chancellor Lamoignon. However, these are secondary flaws, and do not seriously detract from the enjoyment ...
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Science and the Literary Imagination: Voltaire and Goethe
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
; (ProQuest-CSA LLC: denotes formula omitted.) THIS ESSAY WAS COMMISSIONED in the later 19608 by a letter from Anthony Thorlby, one of the editors of the collection Literature and Western Civilization cited in the note below. The other, and I gathered senior, editor was David Daiches. I no longer
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The mystery of Voltaire's chicken BOOKS HISTORY
The Independent on Sunday
; Passionate Minds By David Bodanis LITTLE, BROWN pounds 17.99 pounds 16.50 (P&P FREE) 08700 798 897 The story of Voltaire's love affair with milie du Chtelet has everything: money, passion, adultery, tragedy - even physics, because what bonded them was a shared interest in Newton. Perfect material,
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Unsung heroes
The Independent on Sunday
; Passionate Minds: The great scientific affair HHHHI By David Bodanis Abacus Pounds 9.99 The American edition of this book bears the fuller and more flavourful subtitle "The great love affair of the Enlightenment, featuring the scientist milie du Chtelet, the poet Voltaire, sword fights, book
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Book reviews: Voltaire In Exile: Justice for the people's hero
Scotland on Sunday
; 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 ...
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Fleeting Light.(Voltaire in Exile)(Book Review)
First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
; VOLTAIRE IN EXILE By IAN DAVIDSON Grove 326pp. $24. IF A PERSON OF FAITH troubles to think of Voltaire (1694-1778) at all these days, it is most likely as the village atheist: shoveling scorn in Candide on Leibniz's sunny theodicy that proclaims this the best of all possible worlds, flinging verbal
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The subtextual reincarnation of Voltaire and Rousseau. (Francois-Marie Arouet, Theodore Rousseau)
American Scholar
; Editors are notoriously the humblest underlaborers among scholars, their lives' work--discreetly camouflaged in prefaces, footnotes, and appendices--more often consulted than read, and virtually ignored by the general public. Editors of correspondence, in scavenging mainly among documents
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