Dinner At Voltaire's Analysis
Daniel Lee AP Euro
Term Paper 1/9/17
Dinner at Voltaire’s The year was 1797. I was on my way to Ferney as I was lucky enough to be invited to Voltaire’s dinner party. I sat back in the carriage and my heart pounded as the clopping of the horse’s hooves got louder. My prolonged preparation of my special attire had me running late for the special occasion. I spoke to myself loudly, “I can’t be late to this important dinner” hoping the coachman would hear me and speed up. The coachman turned back and gave me a quick signal with his hands, signifying that we were about to reach the destination in a short time. Voltaire loomed like some great beam of light whose rays had reached around the world, and sparked curiosity. All of …show more content…
It is a small rule of mine to provide my guests with a fulfilling dinner and satisfactory hospitality before they leave my house. So please enjoy.” As Voltaire sat down, he scanned the table and saw Rousseau, Catherine the Great, Thomas Jefferson, Beaumarchais, Antoine the Bourgeoisie and myself. Just then, the servants started bringing in the dishes. We were first served warmed up beef in gravy which is a type of Hors D'Oeuvre. As everyone took a bite out of their beef in gravy, they once again started their conversations and the dining room was soon filled with booming …show more content…
I wrote in the novel, ‘I had not always bleared eyes and red eyelids; nor was I always a servant. I am the daughter of Pope Urban X, and of the Princess of Palestrina.’ I made it so that the pope defied the requirement of celibacy, and through this I exposed the hypocrisy of Church leaders.” Voltaire responded. “So are you against following the Church or even having a religion?” Catherine asked confusingly. “No absolutely not! I was simply trying to raise awareness of the Church’s corruption at that time. Because of this now I am abhorred by the Catholic church,” Voltaire shook his head and smirked absurdly.
Antoine suddenly intervened, “I agree with Voltaire. The Catholic Church is certainly guilty of becoming corrupt, and using fear to influence the people of France into obeying their laws. The lower class of France was forced to pay much higher taxes than the wealthy clergymen. Also, the tax was hardly used to help the lower class improve their conditions, but rather further helped the upper class, which created an enormous wealth gap. This made the life for peasants much difficult.” Antoine, although not affected by the heavy taxes as much as the peasants, expressed his thoughts on the
Term Paper 1/9/17
Dinner at Voltaire’s The year was 1797. I was on my way to Ferney as I was lucky enough to be invited to Voltaire’s dinner party. I sat back in the carriage and my heart pounded as the clopping of the horse’s hooves got louder. My prolonged preparation of my special attire had me running late for the special occasion. I spoke to myself loudly, “I can’t be late to this important dinner” hoping the coachman would hear me and speed up. The coachman turned back and gave me a quick signal with his hands, signifying that we were about to reach the destination in a short time. Voltaire loomed like some great beam of light whose rays had reached around the world, and sparked curiosity. All of …show more content…
It is a small rule of mine to provide my guests with a fulfilling dinner and satisfactory hospitality before they leave my house. So please enjoy.” As Voltaire sat down, he scanned the table and saw Rousseau, Catherine the Great, Thomas Jefferson, Beaumarchais, Antoine the Bourgeoisie and myself. Just then, the servants started bringing in the dishes. We were first served warmed up beef in gravy which is a type of Hors D'Oeuvre. As everyone took a bite out of their beef in gravy, they once again started their conversations and the dining room was soon filled with booming …show more content…
I wrote in the novel, ‘I had not always bleared eyes and red eyelids; nor was I always a servant. I am the daughter of Pope Urban X, and of the Princess of Palestrina.’ I made it so that the pope defied the requirement of celibacy, and through this I exposed the hypocrisy of Church leaders.” Voltaire responded. “So are you against following the Church or even having a religion?” Catherine asked confusingly. “No absolutely not! I was simply trying to raise awareness of the Church’s corruption at that time. Because of this now I am abhorred by the Catholic church,” Voltaire shook his head and smirked absurdly.
Antoine suddenly intervened, “I agree with Voltaire. The Catholic Church is certainly guilty of becoming corrupt, and using fear to influence the people of France into obeying their laws. The lower class of France was forced to pay much higher taxes than the wealthy clergymen. Also, the tax was hardly used to help the lower class improve their conditions, but rather further helped the upper class, which created an enormous wealth gap. This made the life for peasants much difficult.” Antoine, although not affected by the heavy taxes as much as the peasants, expressed his thoughts on the