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The Time of Voltaire, the ninth volume of The Story of Civilization, can be an in-depth examination of France and Great britain in the first fifty percent of the 18th hundred years. In this masterful work, listeners will come across:
- The English ideas that encouraged the Enlightenment in France - skepticism, clinical experiment, constitutional federal, "natural rights", and individual liberty
- The salons of Paris, where in fact the wits and thinkers of most Europe gathered to exchange ideas
- The philosophers - 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 philosophers, who seduced King Louis XV and through him inspired French plan
- The Augustan Time in English books - Alexander Pope's poetry, Jonathan Swift's satires, and the books of Samuel Richardson and Henry Fielding
