Voltaire: 685 books

Ce livre basé sur les travaux de Paul Janet et John Stuart Mill, traite de la liberté de penser et d’exprimer sa pensée. On dénonce sans cesse les libres penseurs comme portant atteinte à toutes les lois divines et humaines, comme menaçant les bases mêmes de la société, comme effaçant...

Extrait : "Presque toutes les nations ont eu des assemblées générales. Les Grecs avaient leur église, dont la société chrétienne prit le nom ; le peuple romain eut ses comices ; les Tartares ont eu leur cour-illé, et ce fut dans une de ces cours-illés que Gengis-kan prépara la conquête de...

Extrait : "Pour tous rimeurs, habitants du Parnasse, De par Phébus il est plus d'une place : Les rangs n'y sont confondus comme ici, Et c'est raison. Ferait beau voir aussi, Le fade auteur d'un roman ridicule, Sur même lit couché près de Catulle ; Ou bien Lamotte ayant l'honneur du pas, Sur le harpeur...

This anthology is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these literary masterworks. For those who have known and loved these works in the past, this is an invitation to reunite with old friends in a fresh new format. From Shakespeare s finesse to Oscar...

Penser le pays autrement. Faire émerger l'espace de la citoyenneté dans le discours social et dans l'espace public. Les espoirs sont grands et les promesses mirobolantes. Les interrogations qui accompagnent les mots refondation et reconstruction sont légion. Refonder comment? Reconstruire quoi?...

Extrait : "ANTOINE : César, tu vas régner ; voici le jour auguste Où le peuple romain, pour toi toujours injuste, Changé par tes vertus, va reconnaître en toi Son vainqueur, son appui, son vengeur, et son roi. Antoine, tu le sais, ne connait point l'envie : J'ai chéri plus que toi la gloire de...

The aged Belus, king of Babylon, thought himself the first man upon earth; for all his courtiers told him so, and his historians proved it. We know that his palace and his park, situated at a few parafangs from Babylon, extended between the Euphrates and the Tigris, which washed those enchanted banks....

The empire of Russia is the largest in the whole globe, extending from west to east upwards of two thousand common leagues of France, and about eight hundred in its greatest breadth from north to south. It borders upon Poland and the Frozen Sea, and joins to Sweden and China. Its length from the island...

It is enough: the power of Salome, By all acknowledged, and by all obeyed, On its firm basis stands immovable: I fled to Azor, with the lightning's speed, Even from Samaria's plain to Jordan's spring, And quick returned: my presence there indeed Was needful, to cut off the aspiring hopes Of Israel's...

The Egyptians did not apply themselves to commerce until a very late period; they had a horror of the sea; it was their Typhon. The Tyrians, on the contrary, were navigators from time immemorial; they brought together those nations which Nature had separated, and repaired those calamities into which...

Zadig, a good-hearted, handsome young man from Babylonia, is in love with Sémire and they are to marry. Sémire, however, has another suitor: Orcan wants her for himself. Zadig tries to defend his love from Orcan's threat, but his eye is injured in the process. Sémire abhors this injury, causing her...

The princess Amasidia, daughter of Amasis, king of Tanis in Egypt, took a walk upon the highway of Peluaium with the ladies of her train. She was sunk in deep melancholy. Tears gushed from her beautiful eyes. The cause of her grief was known, as well as the fears she entertained lest that grief should...