... dead in 1765 and Marries Leczinska having given eight girls to dynasty. Mined by the smallpox, the king extinguishes himself May 10 1774. Madame de Pompadour Madame du Pompadour was born Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson. Her father was a steward to the Paris brothers who ran the economy of France. Though ... of the King Louis XV and became his mistress. She divorced her husband and was awarded the title Marquise de Pompadour. Louis XV had a tendency to always be bored and Madame de Pompadour knew how to keep him entertained. She had a small theater built at Versailles and staged plays just ......

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... year (3). He outlived everybody's predictions by eighty-three years, and lived to be eighty-four years old. As a young boy his parents hired Voltaire his first tutor, the Abbé de Chteaneuf. He introduced Voltaire to a mock epic, La Mosade, which was a manuscript that circulated secretly (3). The theme of the epic was that religion was a device used by rulers to keep ... 's most famous plays (Durant, Durant 36). He was also a fan of Homer's The Iliad, which was sent to him during his stay at the Bastille (36). Voltaire's historical narrative, Histoire de Charles XII, was influenced by a ...

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... 000 Livre in helping the American colonists in the American Revolution. He gained this money from heavy borrowing and high taxation. In the fall of 1786, Charles Alexander de Calonne, Louis XVI's controller general noticed the immense stress that was placed on the French economy. He proposed a financial reform package; it included a land tax ... the Bastille. The peasants placed the head of the Governor on a spike and paraded it down as they marched toward the Hotel de Ville. Once they reached the Hotel de Ville they invaded and took control over the French city hall. After they took pow...

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... Australia?: Media Systems and Cultural coordinates in: J. Curran & M-J Park (Eds.), "De-westernising Media Studies". London and New York: Routledge, pp 237-248. What evidence is there that the author(s) of your chosen reading are influenced by the ideas of the Enlightenment ... and/or modernism? As far as you can, link your response to themes developed by significant Enlightenment thinkers mentioned in this subject. The Cunningham and Flew article, De-westernising Australia?, printed in 2000 is written from a post modern perspective, given the date of publication, and the continuing the...

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... enlightened monarchy was necessary to protect the rights of citizens. Claude Adrien Helvetius was another French philosopher who developed theories during the Enlightenment. In 1758, he published his magnus opus, De l'esprit, which he intended to become a rival of Spirit of the Laws written by Montesqieu by arguing strongly against his theory that surroundings influenced the character of nations ... . De l'esprit brought forward Helvetius's idea that individual's minds and personalities were blank at birth and that who people become is a product of their environment and a total of past e...

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... Hooker, 1999 • http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/95nov/voltaire.html "Voltaire: Author and Philosopher", revised January 2003 • http://www.malaspina.com/site/person_857.asp "Biography: Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu" • http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/d/diderot.htm "Denis Diderot", The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2001 • http://www2.lucidcafe.com/lucidcafe/library/96jun/rousseau.html "Jean ... ...

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... in his political satire life. Letters to England, which indicted the French Government, and Candide, the famous novel about ignorance and intolerance. Voltaire's life was spent following one of his quotes, "Ecrasez L"infame," Crush Infamy (Encarta 3). For Voltaire's time, 1694-1778, politics were handled by the monarchies that commanded incredible power over the populations. All were corrupt to some degree, but ... ...

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... gave way to new ideas about who God is and his involvement in our lives. Unlike the Reformation period, people started to question the relevance of God. Voltaire and Marquis de Condorcet thought that men could perfect themselves, therefore perfecting society, (121 Frances A. Schaeffer How Should We Then Live) all this could happen without an intervention from God. They believed that ... ...

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... French and cosmopolitan rather than British, and he was much under the intellectual influence of that great Frenchman who is best known under the name of Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire, 1694 1778). Voltaire -was an author of enormous industry; seventy volumes of him adorn the present -writer's shelves, and another edition of Voltaire's works runs to ninety- four; he ... ...

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... motif throughout the book. Voltaire created several hypocritical religious figures more concerned with themselves than the masses or their religion. He created a pope with a bastard child and mocked the auto-de-fe's that were being performed for absurd reasons on people guilty of inconsequential behavior. Voltaire included several conflicts between and within the Muslim, Jesuit, and Jewish religions. The recurring examples ... ...

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Francois-Marie Arouet De Voltaire's most classic work, Candide, is a satiric assault on most everything that was prevalent in society during the author's lifetime. In Candide, Voltaire offers the reader characters that partake in ... ...

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