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The infamous philosophe.(Book Review)
Roger Pearson Voltaire Almighty: A Life in Pursuit of Freedom. Bloomsbury, 480 pages, $35
In the spring of 1761, an aging Francois-Marie Arouet (a.k.a. Voltaire) took it upon himself to rebuild the small parish church that stood on his sprawling estate at Ferney. The self-proclaimed Deist, mocker of the Biblical storyline, and indefatigable critic of ecclesiastical abuses spared little expense in this latest--and most curious--project of reform and reformation. In place of the old facade, he erected a new one in the modern neoclassical style, with two handsome bell towers, each capped with a gleaming dome. Over the altar, he installed a baldachino as well as an ...
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