Yet another reason why Voltaire and Rousseau didn't see eye to eye, to put it mildly.
Huh, I didn't know Voltaire was anti-Sparta! Good for him!
(Okay, I'm being unfair to Maximilien R., who actually was anti death penalty, in a tragic irony, for most of his life and held speeches to that effect when starting his political career. Alas...)
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Re: 1764-1772 Foreign policy: Rousseau
Date: 2024-02-17 12:46 am (UTC)Huh, I didn't know Voltaire was anti-Sparta! Good for him!
(Okay, I'm being unfair to Maximilien R., who actually was anti death penalty, in a tragic irony, for most of his life and held speeches to that effect when starting his political career. Alas...)
I DID NOT KNOW THIS.