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| 49 | + content: "Impact of Voltaire’s Writings on Modern French Culture\n\n1. A civic vocabulary of liberty and tolerance\n• |
| 50 | + “Écrasez l’infâme” (Crush the infamous thing) and “Il faut cultiver notre jardin” (We must cultivate our garden) |
| 51 | + are still quoted by politicians, journalists and schoolchildren. \n• His defense of minor-religion victims (Calas, |
| 52 | + Sirven, La Barre) supplied iconic cases that taught the French the meaning of liberté de conscience. \n• Concepts |
| 53 | + central to the Revolution (droits de l’homme, liberté d’expression, égalité civile) were first popularized not |
| 54 | + by legal texts but by Voltaire’s pamphlets, letters and contes philosophiques. When the Déclaration des droits |
| 55 | + de l’homme et du citoyen (1789) was drafted, deputies openly cited him.\n\n2. Laïcité as a cultural reflex\n• |
| 56 | + Voltaire’s relentless criticism of clerical power helped dissociate “being French” from “being Catholic.” \n• |
| 57 | + The 1905 law separating Church and State and the contemporary consensus that religion is a private matter (laïcité) |
| 58 | + both rest on an attitude—skepticism toward organized religion—that Voltaire normalized. \n• His nickname l’Athée |
| 59 | + de la Sorbonne is still invoked in current debates about headscarves, bio-ethics or blasphemy; op-ed writers speak |
| 60 | + of a “Voltaire moment” whenever satire confronts religion (Charlie Hebdo, exhibitions, plays, etc.).\n\n3. Freedom |
| 61 | + of speech as a near-sacred principle\n• Voltaire’s legendary—if apocryphal—phrase “I disapprove of what you say, |
| 62 | + but I will defend to the death your right to say it,” regularly appears in parliamentary debates, media codes |
| 63 | + of ethics and lycée textbooks. \n• Modern defamation and press-liberty laws (1881 and after) were drafted in |
| 64 | + a climate steeped in Voltairian skepticism toward censorship.\n\n4. The French taste for “esprit” and satire\n• |
| 65 | + Candide, Lettres philosophiques, and Dictionnaire philosophique established the short, witty, corrosive form as |
| 66 | + a French ideal of prose. \n• Newspapers like Le Canard enchaîné, TV programs such as “Les Guignols,” and graphic |
| 67 | + novels by Luz or Jul draw directly on the Voltairian strategy: humor plus moral indignation. \n• Even serious |
| 68 | + political commentary in France prizes the mot d’esprit and the reductive punch line—an unwritten stylistic legacy |
| 69 | + of Voltaire.\n\n5. Educational canon and cultural literacy\n• Voltaire is compulsory reading in collège and lycée; |
| 70 | + exam questions on Candide are perennial. \n• His letters model the “dissertation française” structure (thèse, |
| 71 | + antithèse, synthèse) taught nationwide. \n• The annual “Prix Voltaire” (CLEMI) rewards high-school press clubs |
| 72 | + that fight censorship, rooting his ideals in adolescent civic training.\n\n6. Influence on French legal and political |
| 73 | + institutions\n• The Council of State and the Constitutional Council frequently cite “liberté de penser” (Voltaire, |
| 74 | + Traité sur la tolérance) when striking down laws that restrict expression. \n• The secular “Journée de la laïcité,” |
| 75 | + celebrated each 9 December, uses excerpts from Traité sur la tolérance in official posters distributed to town |
| 76 | + halls.\n\n7. Literary forms and genres\n• The conte philosophique (Candide, Zadig, Micromégas) paved the way for |
| 77 | + the modern nouvelle, the hybrid “essay-novel” of Sartre, Camus, Yourcenar, and for the philosophical BD (Sfar’s |
| 78 | + Le chat du rabbin). \n• Voltaire’s mixing of reportage, satire, philosophy and fiction prefigured the essayistic |
| 79 | + style of today’s “livres de société” by writers such as Houellebecq or Mona Chollet.\n\n8. Language: a living |
| 80 | + imprint\n• “Voltairien/Voltairienne” denotes caustic wit; “voltairisme” means sharp, secular critique. \n• His |
| 81 | + aphorisms—“Le mieux est l’ennemi du bien,” “Les hommes naissent égaux” —crop up in talk-shows and business seminars |
| 82 | + alike.\n\n9. National memory\n• Burial in the Panthéon (1791) created the template for the République’s secular |
| 83 | + sanctuaries. \n• Libraries, streets, Lycée Voltaire (Paris, Orléans, Wingles) and the high-speed train “TGV 220 |
| 84 | + Voltaire” embed him in daily geography. \n• Bicentenary celebrations in 1978 and the 2014 republication of Traité |
| 85 | + sur la tolérance (after the Charlie Hebdo attacks) both caused nationwide spikes in sales, proving enduring resonance.\n\n10. |
| 86 | + A benchmark for intellectual engagement\n• When French public intellectuals sign manifestos (from Zola’s “J’accuse” |
| 87 | + to the recent petitions on climate or pensions), the very act echoes Voltaire’s pamphlet warfare: use the pen |
| 88 | + to influence power. \n• The Académie française and PEN International invoke him as the patron saint of the “écrivain |
| 89 | + engagé,” a figure central to modern French self-understanding.\n\nIn short, Voltaire’s writings did more than |
| 90 | + enrich French literature; they installed reflexes—skepticism, satire, secularism, and the primacy of individual |
| 91 | + rights—that continue to structure French laws, education, media tone, and collective identity. Modern France’s |
| 92 | + attachment to laïcité, its bawdy political humor, its fierce defense of free expression, and even the way essays |
| 93 | + are written in lycée classrooms all carry a Voltairian fingerprint." |
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