The Age of Voltaire
Audiobook on MP3 CD - 2015
The Age of Voltaire, the ninth volume of The Story of Civilization, is an in-depth examination of France and England in the first half of the eighteenth century. In this masterful work, listeners will encounter the English ideas that inspired the Enlightenment in France--skepticism, scientific experiment, constitutional government, "natural rights," and individual liberty; the salons of Paris, where the wits and thinkers of all Europe gathered to exchange ideas; the philosophes--intellectuals, playwrights, and poets who consulted and consorted with kings and queens; Voltaire himself--the incarnation of the Enlightenment and a devotee of reason who still defended religious faith; Mme. Pompadour, patron of the philosophes, who seduced King Louis XV and through him influenced French policy; the Augustan Age in English literature--Alexander Pope's poetry, Jonathan Swift's satires, and the novels of Samuel Richardson and Henry Fielding; and the growing parasitism of the aristocracy and rising power of the commercial class
Publisher:
[Ashland, Oregon] : Blackstone Audio, Inc., [2015]
Edition:
Unabridged
Copyright Date:
℗2015
ISBN:
9781504600408
1504600401
1504600401
Characteristics:
3 audio discs (approximately 43 hr.) : digital, MP3 ; 4 3/4 in
digital,optical,stereo
audio file,MP3
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