#Voltaire

Madame de Pompadour

JeanAntoinett11

Laissez-moi vous parler de mon cher ami Voltaire et de comment, avec son exil en Angleterre, il est devenu l'un des principaux philosophes des Lumières. Tout se passe au début

Heidi Cuda

Heidi_Cuda

1/ Day One Takeaways:NOT PERRY MASON: “Everyone wants the ‘Perry Mason’ moment, where the defendant breaks down and admits everything. Not gonna happen. Trump will never admit guilt. Nixon never

Burnt Toast

imfeelingsalty

most fun i ever had doing a research paper was probably when i got to write about memes and advertising my best research paper is probably the one i wrote

Patrick CHAMOISEAU

PCHAMOISEAU

1/3 - Hugo, Césaire, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Ghandi... Schoelcher... toutes les consciences, même les plus hautes et les plus admirables, ont toujours un angle mort. 2/3 - Difficile d'échapper à tous

Foucauld Pérotin ❦ ⧖⃝

FoucPerotin

[Thread] Le 18 juillet, Bérengère Viennot @Berentrice a posté un tweet qui a déplu à certains, qui ont alors signalé ce tweet. Près d’un mois après, @TwitterFrance a bloqué le

Àlex Claramunt

MestreClaramunt

Son muchos los motivos que hacen fascinante el estudio del Sacro Imperio y de las formas en las que se ha presentado y valorado desde su disolución en 1806. Acompañadme

Andrzej Kozlowski

akoz33

So here is Yulia Latynina’s great article in Novaya Gazeta entitled “Infntile socialism has become the new religion of the Greater West”. https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2020/08/03/86505-zabludilis-v-treh-narrativah-diskussiyaLet me

Great Women of Mathematics

GWOMaths

GREAT WOMAN OF MATHEMATICS: EMILIE DU CHATELET, 1706-1749. Growing up in the household of a member of French nobility gave her better access to education than was typical for women

michaela 👩🏻‍💻

michaelahirsh

This morning:“Jewish people cry about Hitler but Hitler did what he had to do for his people. Germany today is a superpower because of Hitler. Don’t you ever forget that.”

The Year That Was Podcast

TYTWPodcast

My husband is a chemistry prof, and he HATES it when people use entropy as a synonym for disorder. He explains about the laws of thermodynamics, and I have no

siddharth khare

siddharthkhare

A cursory reading of the reporting around this shows that a narrative is being created as we watch. The 'opposition' media is harming national security and diplomacy. Tejasvi is a

Benedict Evans

benedictevans

There are lots of things you can say about this, but the core, I think, is that we really don't know what we think about it. https://m.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10112270823363411 We spent hundreds

St Judas.

GreatHeretic

#GoaInquisitionThe principle of the Inquisition was murderous ... The popes were not only murderers in the great style, but they also made murder a legal basis of the Christian Church

Rabih Alameddine

rabihalameddine

Edouard Boubat, Window Shopping - 1948 Josef Sudek from the window of my atelier André Kertész - A Window on the Quai Voltaire, Paris, 1928 André Kertész, Circo, Budapest, 1920

Lugubrious ᎷᏦ

olagjean

The mistake people like Kantbot make is to live under the delusion that in 20 years they will be hailed as the reforming pioneers of democratized erudition, whereas what will

Diamanda Hagan

Diamandahagan

While the Beethoven tweetstorm's going on there's a bunch of cool historical figures we know were poc and they still aren't getting the attention they deserve. Thomas Alexandre Dumas, born