VOLTAIRE AND THE QUAKER, CLAUDE GAY, Bullet of Friends' Historil Society of Philalphia, Vol. 7, No. 1 (FIFTH MONTH (MAY), 1916), pp. 27-30
Contents:
- WERE VOLTAIRE AND KG FRERICK THE GREAT, A SECRET UPLE? WERE THEY GAY?
- RIMBD AND VERLAE: FRANCE AGONIS OVER DIGGG UP GAY POETS
WERE VOLTAIRE AND KG FRERICK THE GREAT, A SECRET UPLE? WERE THEY GAY?
The three words, on page 545, were: “Villette, urbane homosexual. What he had not always done, however, was to live at the hoe of a known “urbane homosexual.
Still, his treatment of the “anti-physique” theme is everywhere his works, such as an article tled “Amour nommé Socratique” his Philosophil Dictnary; the scen Candi which Cunegon’s brother—an aristocrat, a prit, and a homosexual, that orr—appears. There is no unrlyg cricism, no judgment about the baron of Thunr-ten-Tronckh’s homosexualy.
” One n surmise why homosexuals were not targets of Voltaire’s reproach: they played no role curtailg the rights of others society or nyg the opprsed the possibily of bread and happs. Two of Voltaire’s bt iends were gay, and I have my spicns about a third, the Marquis d’Argenson, the creator of the Arsenal Library.
RIMBD AND VERLAE: FRANCE AGONIS OVER DIGGG UP GAY POETS
Wh his tramark tolerance and humany, Voltaire accepted his gay iends wh aplomb, created gay characters who were villao for other reasons, and lived his fal days sucred, and loved, by timate iends who were “anti-physiqu.