[New-Poetry] Happy Birthday, Voltaire!

[Anny Ballardini]

>From the Writer's Almanac:

It's the birthday of
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*, (books by this
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the man who helped spark the Enlightenment in France, born François-Marie
Arouet in Paris (1694). He was a well-known playwright and poet. He spent
most of his late life in exile, and he wrote most of his work from England.
In the last year of his life, 1778, he was allowed to return home to Paris.
More than 300 people came to visit him his first day in the city, including
Benjamin Franklin.

Voltaire wrote, "God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to
laugh."

And, "To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also
be well-mannered."

And, "Let us read and let us dance ... two amusements that will never do any
harm to the world."




-- 
Anny Ballardini
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I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing
star!
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