Voltaire, His Works, Friends, Loves

The list author says:
	"Your French prof insists you read it: to get all the jokes you need to know about his political exile, social ambition, enemies and loves. A must but often two-dimensional without some background"

The list author says:
	"A Orange Prize longlisted comedy in which Voltaire returns, and tries to join the 21st century with a website, L'infame.org. Lots of fun..."

The list author says:
	"All you need to quote the Enlightened One, with excellent biographic introduction"

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	"Wonderful narrative plumbing Emilie's talents/viewpoint"

The list author says:
	"The young Voltaire, ambitious and polemic, and determined to make a point on everything from Quaker free thought to smallpox shots  to the French dullards back home"

The list author says:
	"In 50 pgs, why is Voltaire a Philosophe, when it's so hard to describe his philosophy? What did he share with Christianity--that trust in a single Good,-- when he condemned the faith as nonsense?"

The list author says:
	"When she wasn't trying to keep Louis XV hooked, Madame de Pompadour sponsored Voltaire as court historiographer, but as usual, he blew it by making mischief"

The list author says:
	"In exile, V. needed gossip, and du Deffand kept him fed! Having lived a wild youth, she got blind, cranky and silly over Walpole. Wallow in the salons of Paris..."

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	"An excellent retelling of the older V.'s belated evolution into the famed humanitarian of Ferney"

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	"The entertaining Summer Read, about the middle years, and life in his bedroom with the volatile and horny Emilie"

The list author says:
	"With his buddy Richelieu, V. put her in the King's bed, but her mentoring let him down"

The list author says:
	"Voltaire wrote a history of Louis XIV, but as that's out of print....Fraser will do"