But at the touch of Hume and Voltaire the noble or hideous visitations which had haunted the mind since Agamemnon's blood cried out for vengeance, disappeared altogether or took tawdry refuge among the gaslights of melodrama.

A man of the Enlightenment, Heinrich Marx was interested in the ideas of the philosophers Immanuel Kant and Voltaire, and took part in agitation for a constitution and reforms in Prussia, which was then governed by an absolute monarchy.

Cabaret Voltaire took conceptual cues from Burroughs, J. G. Ballard, and Tristan Tzara.

Charles fascinated many in his time ; Voltaire, who could be very sardonic, stopped in front of Charles and took off his hat.

Many Rameau specialists have regretted that the collaboration with Houdar de la Motte never took place, and that the Samson project with Voltaire came to nothing because the librettists Rameau did work with were second-rate.

Over the winter of 1747-48, Voltaire and his entourage took up residence in Lunéville.

He now bought an estate at Dawley, near Uxbridge, where he renewed his intimacy with Pope, Swift and Voltaire, took part in Pope's literary squabbles, and wrote the philosophy for the Essay on Man.

Rossini's final Italian opera, " Semiramide could well be dubbed Tancredi Revisited ", since it was again written by Rossi from yet another Voltaire tragedy, it took the form of a return to vocal traditions of his youth, and was a melodrama in which he " recreated the baroque tradition of decorative singing with unparalleled skill ".

At this point, Voltaire took over.

In 1775 Denon was sent on a special mission to Switzerland, and took the opportunity of visiting Voltaire at Ferney.

Hennings and Ball moved to Zurich in 1915, where they took part in the founding of the Cabaret Voltaire, which marked the beginning of the Dada movement.

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.

Royall, a learned gentleman farmer twenty years Anne's senior, took an interest in her and arranged for her education, introducing her to the works of Shakespeare and Voltaire, and allowing her to make free use of his extensive library.

She took part in Dada-inspired performances as a dancer, choreographer, and puppeteer ; and she designed puppets, costumes, and sets for performances at the Cabaret Voltaire as well as for other Swiss and French theaters.

The first live performance after a pause of almost ten years took place at the famous Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, Switzerland on Friday, July 13, 2007.

" This is taken from Edward Gibbon, who presumably took it from Voltaire.

In Zurich in 1918, he re-connected with Hans Arp and took part in several Dada activities, befriending Marcel Janco, Richard Huelsenbeck, Sophie Taeuber, and the other dadaists connected to the Cabaret Voltaire.

* 1762 – French Huguenot Jean Calas, who had been wrongly convicted of killing his son, dies after being tortured by authorities ; the event inspired Voltaire to begin a campaign for religious tolerance and legal reform.

The widely-repeated story that the remains of Voltaire were stolen by religious fanatics in 1814 and thrown into a garbage heap is false.

This arrangement stands in marked contrast to some recent philosophy in the West, which has traditionally enforced either a completely unified philosophic / religious belief system ( for example, the various sects and associated philosophies of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam ), or a sharp and total repudiation of some forms of religion by philosophy ( for example, Nietzsche, Marx, Voltaire, etc.

Their first project, the tragédie en musique Samson, was abandoned because an opera on a religious theme by Voltaire — a notorious critic of the Church — was likely to be banned by the authorities.

Other noteworthy intellectuals and religious figures on the Index include Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Voltaire, Denis Diderot, Victor Hugo, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, André Gide, Immanuel Kant, David Hume, René Descartes, Francis Bacon, John Milton, John Locke, Galileo Galilei, Blaise Pascal, Hugo Grotius and Saint Faustina Kowalska.

But soon Voltaire saw the case as much more than religious propaganda.

Writing as a devout Christian, Johnson makes through his characters no blanket attacks on the viability of a religious response to this question, as Voltaire does, and while the story is in places light and humorous, it is not a piece of satire, as is Candide.

In France, he is a symbol of Christian religious intolerance, along with Jean Calas and Pierre-Paul Sirven, all championed by Voltaire.

It is a story of religious and metaphysical orthodoxy, both of which Voltaire challenges with his presentation of the moral revolution taking place in Zadig himself.

Even although, in his Treatise on Toleration ( 1763 ), the famous French liberal philosopher Voltaire expressed a distaste for religious fanaticism, he was at the same time convinced that religion could be a useful tool to keep the masses under control.

His religion was, however, according to the marquis d ' Argenson, exempt from fanaticism, persecution, bitterness and intrigue ; and it did not prevent him from continuing his friendship with Voltaire, to whom it is said he had formerly rendered the service of saving the manuscript of La Henriade, when its author was about to commit it to the flames.

Voltaire, contacted about the case, after initial suspicions that Calas was guilty of anti-Catholic fanaticism had subsided, began a campaign to get Calas's sentence overturned.

The chief, annoyed by these questions, knocks Voltaire down and shouts at him that he not only never went to any school, but never even learned how to read.

Despite his light letter-writing in youth, in later life his correspondence was so voluminous that it has been estimated that he may have written around 30, 000 letters to various correspondents, a figure which places him second only to Voltaire as an epistolarian.

Although Paine liked to say that he read very little, his writings belie this statement ; The Age of Reason has intellectual roots in the traditions of David Hume, Spinoza, and Voltaire.

The related concept of political exile also has a long history: Ovid was sent to Tomis ; Voltaire was sent to England.

In praising her support for smallpox inoculation, Voltaire wrote of her, " I must say that despite all her titles and crowns, this princess was born to encourage the arts and the well-being of mankind ; even on the throne she is a benevolent philosopher ; and she has never lost an opportunity to learn or to manifest her generosity.

It has precedents, however, in the history of philosophy, the history of ideas, and in cultural history as practiced since Burckhardt or indeed since Voltaire.

Philip Oakey of the Human League and Richard H. Kirk of Cabaret Voltaire as well as music journalist Simon Reynolds has cited the soundtrack as an inspiration.

Since the mid-1980s, the term " Industrial dance " has been used to describe the music of Cabaret Voltaire ( early 80s ), early Die Krupps, Portion Control, The Neon Judgement, Clock DVA, Nitzer Ebb, Skinny Puppy, Front Line Assembly, Front 242, Ministry ( mid-80s era ), KMFDM, Yeht Mae, Leæther Strip, Combichrist or early Spahn Ranch.

The Voltaire Network, which has somehow changed position since the September 11 attacks and whose director, Thierry Meyssan, became a leading proponent of 9 / 11 conspiracy theory, explained that although the Norwegian version of Le Monde diplomatique had allowed it to translate and publish this article on its website, the mother-house, in France, categorically refused it this right, thus displaying an open debate between various national editions.

" If Christianity ", he wrote, " has been a degradation, a corruption, Voltaire in attacking it has been a benefactor of the human race ; but if the contrary be true, then the passing of Voltaire over the Christian earth has been a great calamity.

Massillon enjoyed in the 18th century a reputation equal to that of Bossuet and of Bourdaloue, and has been much praised for his eloquence by Voltaire, D ' Alembert and kindred spirits among the Encyclopaedists.

But among the " ninety-nine " religions with which Voltaire accredited England there is one whose permanency has never been shaken — the worship of gentility.

Influenced by early electronic and ( post -) industrial acts such as Cabaret Voltaire, Portion Control, D. A. F., Test Dept, SPK, and Severed Heads, FLA has developed its own unique sound while combining elements of electronic body music ( EBM ).

Tokaji wine has received accolades from numerous great writers and composers including Beethoven, Liszt, Schubert, Goethe, Heinrich Heine, Friedrich von Schiller, Bram Stoker, Johann Strauß, and Voltaire.

" British author Thomas Hughes referred to Lowell as one of the most important writers in the United States: " Greece had her Aristophanes ; Rome her Juvenal ; Spain has had her Cervantes ; France her Rabelais, her Molière, her Voltaire ; Germany her Jean Paul, her Heine ; England her Swift, her Thackeray ; and America has her Lowell.

It has since been covered by several notable texts, including Diderot's Encyclopédie, Voltaire and the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, and also by the 2004 book The Last Duel by Eric Jager.

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

The experimental Sensoria Festival of Film and Music is named after the Cabaret Voltaire song, and has become an annual event held in Sheffield since 2008.