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Nov. 21 : Voltaire

Voltaire - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltaire
ヴォルテール
哲学者
ヴォルテールこと、本名フランソワ＝マリー・アルエは、フランスの哲学者、文学者、歴史家である。歴史的には、イギリスの哲学者であるジョン・ロックなどとともに啓蒙主義を代表する人物とされる。また、ドゥニ・ディドロやジャン・ル・ロン・ダランベールなどとともに百科全書派の学者の一人として活躍した。ウィキペディア
生年月日： 1694年11月21日
生まれ： フランス パリ
死亡： 1778年5月30日, フランス パリ
本名： François-Marie Arouet
作品： Oedipus、 Mahomet、 Nanine、 Rome preserv'd、 Brutus、 Sophonisbe、 Hérode et Mariamne、 Candide or Optimism

雨果說得好。 Will Durant 的史書也要用伏爾太的時代。他的檔案，似乎在英國的劍橋大學。
The Economist
11月21日 17:46
Voltaire—a writer, philosopher and vocal critic of the abuses of the French Ancien Régime—was born on November 21st 1694. Victor Hugo said that “to name Voltaire is to characterise the entire eighteenth century”

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