{"id":23171,"date":"2014-01-24T08:05:13","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T08:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=23171"},"modified":"2019-05-25T11:14:29","modified_gmt":"2019-05-25T10:14:29","slug":"voltaire-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/voltaire-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Voltaire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Voltaire<\/strong> <strong>(1694-1778)<\/strong> was the nom de plume of \u00a0<strong>Fran\u00e7ois-Marie Arouet<\/strong>, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Voltaire..jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-23172\" style=\"border: 4px solid black;\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Voltaire.-238x300.jpg\" alt=\"Voltaire, d\u00e9tail du visage (ch\u00e2teau de Ferney)\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Voltaire.-238x300.jpg 238w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Voltaire..jpg 476w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><\/a>a prominent French philosopher and a prolific writer on a wide range of subjects with an estimated output of more than 2,000 books and pamphlets and 20,000 letters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/bailly-jean-silvain\/\"> Jean Sylvain Bailly <\/a>wrote a series of letters addressed to Voltaire on the subject of Atlantis, an English translation of which has been published by the British Library<sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/b\/\">926<\/a>]<\/sup> .<\/p>\n<p>However, it appears that Voltaire was somewhat sceptical about the existence of Atlantis remarking in <i>Essai sur le moeurs<\/i><sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/t-v\/\"><sup>1504<\/sup><\/a><sup>] <\/sup>that <i>\u201c if it were true that such a part of the world ever existed. Most likely it was none other than the island of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/madeira-2\/\">Madeira<\/a>.\u201d<\/i><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Anyone researching Atlantis might be advised to remember Voltaire\u2019s aphorism which states that while \u201cdoubt is not a pleasant mental state, certainty is an absurd one.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voltaire (1694-1778) was the nom de plume of \u00a0Fran\u00e7ois-Marie Arouet, who was a prominent French philosopher and a prolific writer on a wide range of subjects with an estimated output of more than 2,000 books and pamphlets and 20,000 letters. Jean Sylvain Bailly wrote a series of letters addressed to Voltaire on the subject of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2903,2904,314,1703],"class_list":["post-23171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-francois-marie-arouet","tag-jean-sylvain-bailly","tag-madeira","tag-voltaire"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}