The Friends of Voltaire
| Language | en |
|---|---|
| First published | 2018-02-21 |
| Rights | Public domain in the USA. |
| Gutenberg ID | #56618 |
Description
"The Friends of Voltaire" by Evelyn Beatrice Hall is an anecdotal biography published in 1906. The book explores the lives of ten prominent 18th-century French Enlightenment figures through their connections to Voltaire. Each man receives a distinctive label—from d'Alembert the Thinker to Condorcet the Aristocrat—as Hall weaves together their intertwined stories. The work notably contains a phrase summarizing Voltaire's views on free speech that would later be widely misattributed as his own words, becoming one of history's most famous quotations. (This is an automatically generated summary.)