“Italy had its renaissance, Germany its reformation, France had Voltaire”, the historian Will Durant once commented. Born François-Marie Arouet, Voltaire (1694-1778) was known in his lifetime as the ...

Julian Barnes pays tribute to Voltaire's Candide, a satire that remains as fresh and pertinent today as when it was written in the 18th century The acknowledged classics of French literature crossed ...

Leonard Bernstein's 1956 operetta "Candide," like Voltaire's novel on which it is based, is a sparklingly witty satire on grim themes including barbarity, religious intolerance and mankind's ...

Reading is one of my passions. I like books that make me think. Voltaire’s Candide is one of those exceptional novels that work on the reader’s sensibilities. "‘The most useful books," he wrote, "are ...