Such was the impromptu that Voltaire gave to howls of laughter at Sans Souci and that was soon circulated in manuscript throughout the literary circles of Europe, to be printed sometime later, but with the name of Timon of Athens, the famous misanthrope, substituted for that of Rousseau.

The works of the French philosophers Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot to name a few are paragon for political analysis, social science, social and political critic.

Famous writers with a pen name include Voltaire, Molière, George Sand, Lewis Carroll, Mark Twain, George Orwell, Dr. Seuss, and Lemony Snicket.

The first wave of this music appeared with Throbbing Gristle, from London ; Cabaret Voltaire, from Sheffield ; and Boyd Rice ( recording under the name NON ), from the United States.

The Factory name was first used for a club in May of that year, which featured local bands including The Durutti Column ( managed at the time by Erasmus and Wilson ), Cabaret Voltaire from Sheffield and Joy Division.

He was at first surnamed Boisgirais after his father's estate, but afterwards assumed the name of Volney ( which he had created as a contraction of Voltaire and Ferney ).

A series of completely instrumental works under the Cabaret Voltaire name were released on Instinct Records in 1993 and 1994.

Since that time, Kirk has resurrected the Cabaret Voltaire name and has released new albums with New Zealand band Kora called Kora!

Philosophers often link concept of optimism with the name of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, who held that we live in the best of all possible worlds, or that God created a physical universe that applies the laws of physics, which Voltaire famously mocked in his satirical novel Candide.

Cabaret Voltaire was the name of a nightclub in Zurich, Switzerland.

It is named after the Rue Voltaire, which is named after François-Marie Arouet ( 1694 – 1778 ), better known under the pen name Voltaire, a French Enlightenment writer and philosopher.

Each class year at the ENA receives a nickname to distinguish it: Royal tried to get her peers to name their class after Louise Michel, a revolutionary from the 1870s, but they chose the name " Voltaire " instead.

Candide, a satire written by Voltaire, took aim at Leibniz as Dr. Pangloss, with the choice of name clearly putting universal language in his sights, but satirizing mainly the optimism of the projector as much as the project.

In Letter 6, Voltaire attacks the Presbyterians, whom he sees as intolerant (" Presbyterian affects a serious gait, puts on a sour look, wears a vastly broad-brimmed hat and a long cloak over a very short coat, preaches through the nose, and gives the name of the whore of Babylon to all churches where the ministers are so fortunate as to enjoy an annual revenue of five or six thousand pounds, and where the people are weak enough to suffer this, and to give them the titles of my lord, your lordship, or your eminence ") and overly strict (" No operas, plays, or concerts are allowed in London on Sundays, and even cards are so expressly forbidden that none but persons of quality, and those we call the genteel, play on that day ; the rest of the nation go either to church, to the tavern, or to see their mistresses ").

Perhaps in Burton's mention, and certainly in Voltaire, Crepitus is the name of a god of flatulence.

Early in his career, Ruiz had used pen names, such as Cándido ( in honor of Voltaire ) and Ahrimán ( the Persian god of destruction ), and in 1904 he discarded his own name and began to use the surname of one of his characters, " Azorín ".

One of the most famous was The Apu Trilogy ( 1955 – 1959 ) from critically acclaimed Bengali film director Satyajit Ray, whose films had a profound influence on world cinema, with directors such as Akira Kurosawa, Martin Scorsese, James Ivory, Abbas Kiarostami, Elia Kazan, François Truffaut, Steven Spielberg ,< ref name = unmaderay >

" When the inquisitor-general of France learned that Servetus was hiding in Vienne, according to Calvin under an assumed name, he contacted Cardinal François de Tournon, the secretary of the archbishop of Lyon, to take up the matter.

Colonna's work was a great influence on the Franciscan monk François Rabelais, who in the 16th century, used Thélème, the French form of the word, as the name of a fictional Abbey in his novels, Gargantua and Pantagruel.

François Rabelais gives tarau as the name of one of the games played by Gargantua in his Gargantua and Pantagruel ; this is likely the earliest attestation of the French form of the name.

He was ondoyed ( a traditional French ceremony which can relate to a concise baptism ) by Joseph Fesch, with his full name Napoleon François Charles Joseph.

The name, coined by French dermatologist François Henri Hallopeau, derives from the Greek: trich-( hair ), till ( en ) ( to pull ), and mania (" madness, frenzy ").

* Giraudoux's name is graffitied on a Parisian wall in François Truffaut's 1959 film The 400 Blows as a reference to the writer.

To the Fontainebleau of François I and Henry II, King Henry IV added the court that carries his name, the Cour des Princes, with the adjoining Galerie de Diane de Poitiers and the Galerie des Cerfs, used as a library.

A logistic function or logistic curve is a common sigmoid curve, given its name in 1844 or 1845 by Pierre François Verhulst who studied it in relation to population growth.

It is sure nevertheless that the name meringue for this confection first appeared in print in François Massialot's cookbook of 1692.

After going through names like " Collins-Akritas method " and " Descartes ' method " ( too confusing if ones considers Fourier's article ), it was finally François Boulier, of Lille University, who gave it the name Vincent-Collins-Akritas ( VCA ) method, p. 24, based on the fact that " Uspensky's method " does not exist and neither does " Descartes ' method ".

Karnak (" Carnac ") as a village name, and name of the complex, is first attested in 1668, when two capuchin missionary brothers Protais and Charles François d ' Orléans travelled though the area.

Enghien gave its name to a French duchy and to the commune of Enghien-les-Bains, a suburb of Paris, due to a complex series of family successions: in 1487, Mary of Luxembourg ( d. 1547 ), the only heir of Peter II of Luxembourg ( d. 1482 ), Count of Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise and member of one of the branches of the House of Luxembourg, married François de Bourbon-Vendôme ( d. 1495 ), the great-grandfather of King Henry IV of France.

Marcel and his older brother, Alain, adopted the last name " Marceau " during the German occupation of France ; the name was chosen as a reference to François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers, a general of the French Revolution.

Under the guise of authenticité, the new movement promoted Africanization: the capital of Fort-Lamy was renamed N ' Djamena and Tombalbaye himself changed his given name from François to Ngarta.

However, the name analemma, which also meant a sundial showing latitude and longitude, was the common name until François d ' Aguilon of Antwerp promoted its present name in 1613.

Born Jules Hardouin in Paris, he studied under his renowned great-uncle François Mansart, one of the originators of the classical tradition in French architecture ; Hardouin inherited Mansart's collection of plans and drawings and adopted his well-regarded name.

During the later 1860s, with François Edouard Joachim Coppée, René François Armand Sully-Prudhomme, Paul Verlaine and others less distinguished, he was one of the poets who associated with Charles Leconte de Lisle, and were given the name of " Parnassiens ".

His name was derived from two other fictional detectives of the time: Marie Belloc Lowndes ' Hercule Popeau and Frank Howel Evans ' Monsieur Poirot, a retired Belgian police officer living in London.

Little is known of Andreas Capellanus's life, but he is presumed to have been a courtier of Marie of Troyes, and probably of French origin ; he is sometimes known by a French translation of his name, André le Chapelain.

The name comes from the medieval-Latin term balneum ( or balineum ) Mariae — literally, Mary's bath — from which the French bain de Marie, or bain-marie, is derived.

There are many theories as to how the name Marie came to be associated with this equipment:

Clausewitz's Christian names are sometimes given in non-German sources as " Carl Philipp Gottlieb " or " Carl Maria ", because of reliance on mistaken source material, conflation with his wife's name, Marie, or mistaken assumptions about German orthography.

Some scholars believe that, because the only evidence for the " courts of love " is Andreas Capellanus ’ s book The Art of Courtly Love, they probably never existed ; to further strengthen their argument, they say that there is also no evidence that Marie ever stayed with her mother in Poitiers, beyond her name being mentioned in Andreas ’ s work.

Léo Taxil was the pen name of Marie Joseph Gabriel Antoine Jogand-Pagès, who had been accused earlier of libel regarding a book he wrote called The Secret Loves of Pope Pius IX.

During this time, due to his political activities, Louis received the nickname " Monsieur Veto " – and the name " Madame Veto " was likewise subsequently bequeathed on Marie Antoinette.

The Ohio Company of Associates chose the name Marietta after an affectionate nickname for Marie Antoinette.

James Louis Sobieski ( full name in Polish: Jakub Ludwik Henryk Sobieski ; 2 November 1667 – 19 December 1737 ) was the son of King John III of Poland and Marie Casimire Louise de La Grange d ' Arquien.

On 16 May 1770, at the age of fifteen, Louis-Auguste married the fourteen-year-old Habsburg Archduchess Maria Antonia ( better known by the French form of her name, Marie Antoinette ), his second cousin once removed and the youngest daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor Francis I and his wife, the formidable Empress Maria Theresa.

Former child star Patty Duke ( whose real name is Anna Marie Duke ) had her stage name chosen for her by her first managers.

* Savannah, the ring name of wrestler Angela Marie Fong

* From 1901 to 1924, the romantic novelist Marie Corelli, real name Minnie Mackay, daughter of Charles Mackay, made her home, with her companion Miss Vyver, at Mason's Croft, Church Street, Stratford.

Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria ( who was given the Latin baptismal name of Maria Ludovica Leopoldina Francisca Theresa Josepha Lucia ) was born at the Hofburg Palace in Vienna on 12 December 1791 to Archduke Francis of Austria and his second wife, Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily.

Other notable guest stars included: Cesar Romero as Chico's absentee father ; Tony Orlando as Chico's look-alike, the ex-fiance of a hostile woman he wants to date ; José Feliciano, who wrote the theme song, as Chico's womanizing famous-singer cousin Pepe Fernando ; Sammy Davis Jr. as himself ; Herbie Faye appeared as Bernie in the 1975 episode " Louie's Retirement "; Shelley Winters ( reuniting with Albertson, with whom she'd costarred in The Poseidon Adventure ) as the owner of the local bakery, Shirley Schrift ( her real name ); Jim Backus as Ed's friend who uses him as a " beard "— pretending to be playing cards with him when cheating on his wife ( Audra Lindley ); silent-film actress Carmel Myers as a former star who has fallen on hard times, brings in her car for repairs, and stays in the garage while looking for work ; George Takei as Ed's supposed long-lost son from his time in Japan during World War II ; Cesare Danova as Aunt Connie's Spanish aristocrat boyfriend, the Count de Catalan, in the second episode in which she appeared ; comedian Joey Bishop as an inept robber ; Bernie Kopell as a plastic surgeon ; Rose Marie as a CB radio enthusiast with whom a lonely Ed connects on New Year's Eve ; Penny Marshall, as a waitress ; football star Rosey Grier as himself, Della's date for a charity benefit dance ; Larry Hovis as a customer in the second episode of the first season ; and Jim Jordan ( of radio's Fibber McGee and Molly ) as a mechanic who used to be a big businessman, until he was victimized by his own company's retirement-age mandate ).

Marie, the Roberta Bondar Park and tent pavilion bear her name, as does the marina beside the park and the Ontario government building at 70 Foster Drive.

:" Marie de ' Medici, all of whose actions were prejudicial to France, has escaped the shame which ought to cover her name.

In 1905, the village name, St. Marie, was changed to Beaverville, when the village founders realized that there was another town in Illinois named St. Mary.

Eventually the name of the new settlement was changed to St. Marie with the French version of the spelling changing in 1892 by request of the French settlers.

The name Marinette comes from the name of an early fur-trader's common-law wife, Marie Antoinette Chevalier ( 1784, Langlade County – 1865, Green Bay ), the common-law wife of a French fur trader.

Marie Railroad ( Soo Line ) with the Flambeau River in 1885, as " Flambeau Falls " after the Ojibwa name for the area Gakaabikijiwanan (" of cliffed rapids ").