This document explains the birth of the American Constitution. It was during the Revolutionary War that the United States adopted the Articles of Confederation. This document was the law of the land until the American Constitution was adopted on September 17, 1787 by the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. Alexis-Henri-Charles Clerel, Count de Tocqueville, usually called by Alexis convenience Tocqueville, born in Paris July 29, 1805 and died in Cannes 16 April 1859, is a political philosopher, politician, historian, precursor of sociology and french writer. He is famous for his...

Summary The hero Durtal, a mediocre Parisian author, is investigating Gilles de Rais, who was accused in the 15th century of having raped and tortured dozens of children. These researches exert a strange fascination over Madame Chantelouve, who soon falls in love with the writer and becomes his mistress. Faithful to Satan, she teaches him that black masses continue to be celebrated in Paris. Durtal initiates himself to Satanism, converses with his friends of occultism, astrology, spiritism, magic ...

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Francois-Marie Arouet, known as Voltaire, born November 21, 1694 in Paris, where he died May 30, 1778 (aged 83) is a French writer and philosopher who marked the eighteenth century and occupies a special place in French collective memory and internationally. An emblematic figure of the Enlightenment, leader of the philosophical party, his name remains attached to his fight against religious fanaticism, which he calls the "Infamous" for tolerance and freedom of thought. Anticlerical and deist outside organized religion, its political objective is that of a moderate and liberal monarchy,...

Francois-Marie Arouet, known as Voltaire, born November 21, 1694 in Paris, where he died May 30, 1778 (aged 83) is a French writer and philosopher who marked the eighteenth century and occupies a special place in French collective memory and internationally. An emblematic figure of the Enlightenment, leader of the philosophical party, his name remains attached to his fight against religious fanaticism, which he calls the "Infamous" for tolerance and freedom of thought. Anticlerical and deist outside organized religion, its political objective is that of a moderate and liberal monarchy,...

PUBLISHER'S PREFACE Voltaire wrote what the people thought, and consequently his writings were universally read. He wittily ridiculed established abuses, and keenly satirized venerable absurdities. For this he was consigned to the Bastile, and this distinction served to increase his popularity and extend his influence. He was thus enabled to cope successfully with the papal hierarchy, and laugh at the murmurs of the Vatican. The struggle commenced in his youth, and continued till his death. It was a struggle of light against darkness-of freedom against tyranny; and it ended in the triumph of...