The Hall, Evelyn Beatrice 1868-1956 creator text utu 2018 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "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.) D'Alembert: the thinker (1717-1783) -- Diderot: the talker (1713-1784) -- Galiani: the wit (1728-1787) -- Vauvenargues: the aphorist (1715-1747) -- D'Holbach: the host (1723-1789) -- Grimm: the journalist (1723-1807) -- Helvétius: the contradiction (1715-1771) -- Turgot: the statesman (1727-1871) -- Beaumarchais: the playwright (1732-1799) -- Condorcet: the aristocrat (1743-1794). Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Friends_of_Voltaire Release date is 2018-02-21 Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images available at The Internet Archive) Original publication data not identified France -- Biography Voltaire, 1694-1778 -- Friends and associates CT PQ Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/56618 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/56618 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134314.0 56618