This group is dedicated to discussions pertaining to the 18th Century Enlightenment: Voltaire; Thomas Paine; Diderot and d'Alembert's "l'Encyclopedie" project; Madame de Pompadour; Frederick the Great; Marquis de Vauvenargues; Olympe de Gouges; Mary Wollstonecraft; French and American Revolutions; Mozart; Antonio Salieri; Thomas Paine; Benjamin Rush, M.D.; Benjamin Franklin; Thomas Jefferson; George Washington and other U.S.A. Founding Fathers, etc. 18th Century history, personages, philosophy, inventions and science are the primary focus of this group.

Here you may read various wonderful plays of Voltaire's, translated and adapted into English by Mr. F. Morlock, a member of this group. These include "Oedipus," "Socrates," and more.

~*~Special serial threads have included such topics as:~*~

+Biographical material regarding William Dampier.

+Letters of Leopold Mozart while on tours with his famous son, Wolfgang.

+Quotes of non-copyrighted material not to be found elsewhere on the internet including especially Voltaire, Baron d'Holbach, Benjamin Franklin, Denis Diderot and Claude-Adrien Helvetius.

My group also hosts an extensive Links section, wherein the subscriber is directed to very fine web articles pertaining to this wonderful era.


Please come with an open mind, a generous spirit, an inquisitive heart, and polite manners. I look forward to having you as a member of my group. I advise you join with a Yahoo! ID, and join via Yahoo! Groups, so that you may access Archives and Links.