#TheAgeofVoltaire, the ninth volume of#TheStoryofCivilization, is an in-depth examination of#France and#England in the first half of the#eighteenthcentury. In this masterful work, listeners will encounter the English ideas that inspired the Enlightenment in France; the salons of#Paris, where the wits and thinkers of all#Europe gathered to exchange ideas; the philosophes-- intellectuals and artists who consulted with#kings and queens;#Voltaire himself, the incarnation of the Enlightenment; Mme. Pompadour, who seduced#LouisXV and through him influenced French policy; the Augustan Age in English literature; and the growing parasitism of the aristocracy and rising power of the commercial class.

ISBN: 9781504600415