How to Give Your Writing Voltage  –  by Voltaire

How to Give Your Writing Voltage – by Voltaire

Voltaire,  historian, philosopher and designer of doors (see my earlier post) was no slouch as an author either, his satirical novel Candide, which charts the passage from optimism to disillusionment, vying for attention with other literary and philosophical...
An Alphabet of Better Writing # V

An Alphabet of Better Writing # V

V is for…Voltaire Well, I could have done verisimilitude, or villain, or any number of other words beginning with V, but I’ve chosen Voltaire. A few weeks ago when I was on holiday in France, I went to visit the chateau at Cirey en Blaise. Voltaire took...