The Quill and the Sword: the History of Intellectuais at the time of Voltaire

Abstract

The analysis developed on the intellectual's genesis in the Occident. It would be this a phenomenon of ends of the century XIX, or the intellectual's birth precedes this period. In this article the trajectory of Voltaire is evaluated, identified with an intellectual carrier of all the attributes capable to check it the title of a E. Zola avant la lettre.