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  • How the spirit of Louis XIV. spoke in his contemptuous remarks on Voltaire, whom he would only call Arouet;

    The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 Philip Wharton 1847

  • One of the letters confirms that Voltaire – born Francois-Marie Arouet – received a pension of £200, no mean sum, from Robert Walpole's government, probably at the request of Queen Caroline, the wife of George II.

    Letters reveal Voltaire's exposure to English empiricism 2012

  • "Roughing It" written by Mark Twain aka Samuel Langhorne Clemens; "Candide" written by Voltaire aka Francois-Marie Arouet aka Monsieur Le Docteur Ralph ... even your alias has an alias when guillotines are the prevalent political correctness enforcers.

    Two Books You Gotta Have 2008

  • Throughout the middle of the eighteenth century, the best-known man of Enlightenment was François-Marie Arouet, Voltaire.

    Emancipation Michael Goldfarb 2009

  • Arouet should prepare it, that Rousseau should premeditate it; it is necessary that Danton should dare it.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • Arouet was born in 1694, so feeble in constitution that, as in the case of Fontenelle, whose hundred years surpassed even Voltaire's lengthy span, his life was long despaired of.

    Voltaire 2007

  • About the same time the name of Arouet falls away, and the poet is known henceforth by that ever famous symbol for so much, Voltaire; a name for which various explanations, none of them satisfactory, have been offered, the latest and perhaps the least improbable resolving it into a fanciful anagram.

    Voltaire 2007

  • Ninon de l'Enclos, a friend of his mother's, was perhaps the one free and honest soul with whom the young Arouet had to do.

    Voltaire 2007

  • Sorry but .... by Arouet on Thursday, Jan 18, 2007 at 11: 00: 57 PM

    Did Bush's Lies to Troops Play Role in the Rape, Killing of Iraqi Girl? 2007

  • Arouet the elder persuaded Châteauneuf's brother, who was a diplomatist, to take into his company the law-student who had made verse instead of studying the laws of Theodosius.

    Voltaire 2007

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