Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 7, 2025
Gentlemen of the best blood of France were put through their paces before the son of Arouet, the notary. Count Saxe noted this impudence of Monsieur Voltaire's, and had said in his hearing that if he, Count Saxe, were hauled and pulled about unseemly, he would, by the blessing of God, run Monsieur Voltaire through the body.
Except certain confused niece-and-nephew personages, progeny of the sisters, Francois has no more trouble or solacement from the paternal household. Francois meanwhile is his Father's synonym, and signs Arouet Junior, 'Francois Aroue l. j.
In America libel only applies to live men, but the world had not then gotten this far along. In the prison it was provided that Sieur Arouet fils should not be allowed pens and paper on account of his misuse of these good things when outside.
I did not turn my hand to writing for money, and paying my court to the great, as Arouet did; but being left penniless and an orphan at fourteen, and his Majesty's recruiting officers coming after me, I went to serve as a foot soldier in Flanders. I carried a musket for twelve years. Of those years I like neither to speak nor to think.
It was in the first reaction from this dimly felt loss that he lit one day on a volume which Alfieri had smuggled into the Academy the Lettres Philosophiques of Francois Arouet de Voltaire. Zu neuen Ufern lockt ein neuer Tag.
The Duke of Orleans one day met him in the garden of the Palais-Royal. "Monsieur Arouet," said he, "I bet that I will make you see a thing you have never seen." "What, pray, monseigneur?" "The Bastille." "Ah! monseigneur, I will consider it seen." Two days later, young Arouet was shut up in the Bastille.
Whereupon the hackney-coach opens, gives out three porters, or hired bullies, with the due implements: scandalous actuality of horsewhipping descends on the back of poor Arouet, who shrieks and execrates to no purpose, nobody being near.
She had no remembrance of the young Arouet, to whom she had sworn to say only 'tu' and 'toi. Now she was grave and dignified, and 'Vous, monsieur, was on her fair lip. Thanks to the heraldry office, she had become the daughter of a distinguished Spaniard, blessed with at least seven ancestors. Phillis gave good dinners, had good wine, and the world overlooked her somewhat obscure lineage.
A certain bright young Frenchman, Francois Arouet, spoiled for a solid law-career, but whose OEDIPE we saw triumphing in the Theatres, and who will, under the new name of VOLTAIRE, become very memorable to us, happened to be running towards Holland that way, one of his many journeys thitherward; and actually saw this Congress, then in the first year of its existence.
As early as then little Arouet, who was weak and in delicate health, but withal of a very lively intelligence, displayed a freedom of thought and a tendency of irreverence which already disquieted and angered his masters. Father Lejay jumped from his chair and took the boy by the collar, exclaiming, "Wretch, thou wilt one of these days raise the standard of Deism in France!"
Word Of The Day
Others Looking