Happy Birthday Voltaire
You can see his library
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Voltaire Legacy Library-See all his books
Today is the birthday of François-Marie Arouet, better known as Voltaire, the great French Enlightenment writer and philosopher. His library, dominated by history, politics and philosophy, has been cataloged on LibraryThing as part of our Legacy Libraries project. 2
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What are Legacy Libraries?Legacy Libraries are the libraries of historical people (as well as a few institutions), entered into LibraryThing by dedicated members working from a variety of sources, including published bibliographies, auction catalogs, library holdings, manuscript lists, wills and probate inventories, and personal inspection of extant copies.
Data on more than 1,500 early American libraries have already been entered into the database from a wide variety of sources, with a huge number of libraries still to be added (and submissions always welcome). For each, we provide all known information on the library, as well as certain demographic elements (birth/death dates, places of residence, occupations, any particular provenance marks the person is known to have left on his or her books, and more).
"We shall leave this world as foolish and as wicked as we found it on our arrival.”
Happy Birthday Voltaire!
"If this is the best of all possible worlds, what are the others?" --Candide