本书摘录:
Introduction
_ Letters on England
by Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet)
Francois Marie Arouet, who called himself Voltaire, was the son of
Francois Arouet of Poitou, who lived in Paris, had given up his
office of notary two years before the birth of this his third son,
and obtained some years afterwards a treasurer‘s office in the
Chambre des Comptes. Voltaire was born in the year 1694. He lived
until within ten or eleven years of the outbreak of the Great French
Revolution, and was a chief leader in the movement of thought that
preceded the Revolution. Though he lived to his eighty-fourth year,
Voltaire was born with a weak body. His brother Armand, eight years
his senior, became a Jansenist. Voltaire when ten years old was
placed with the Jesuits in the College Louis-le-Grand. There he was
taught during seven years, and his genius was encouraged in its bent
for literature; skill in speaking and in writing being especially
fostered in the system of educati
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