Date: 1751
"True philosophy was not known till that time; and it is but justice to say, that commencing from the last year of Cardinal Richelieu, and proceeding to those which immediately succeeded the death of Louis XIV. there came to pass in our arts, in our minds, in our manners, as well as in our govern...
preview | full record— Arouet, François-Marie [known as Voltaire] (1694-1778)