“IT IS DANGEROUS TO BE RIGHT IN MATTERS ON WHICH THE ESTABLISHED AUTHORITIES ARE WRONG.” – Voltaire

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Today in History, November 21: 1694 –

François-Marie Arouet is born in Paris. He would write as Voltaire, and his anit-authoritarian views would land him in the Bastille and in somewhat of an exile at different times in his life.

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