Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Tuesdays with Voltaire


"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung."


Voltaire








Voltaire wrote his first play while a prisoner in the Bastille.  He was sent to the prison for the crime of writing satirical verse about the Regent, Phillip II, Duke of Orleans.

2 comments:

Jenners said...

That does explain much of pop music.

C.B. James said...

Opera, too. ;-)

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