person
Voltaire
also: Вольтер, Francois-Marie Arouet
The French Enlightenment philosopher and satirist (1694-1778), whose name became period shorthand in Russia for a dangerous freethinker or liberal, invoked here as loose comic insult rather than precise reference.
Reading notes
- A Heroine of a Lady §7 Voltaire
The French Enlightenment philosopher, invoked here as period shorthand for a dangerous freethinking liberal, though the general uses the name loosely as an insult rather than a precise reference.