A few queries on Voltaire
1.Was he really born in France? If so how is the “world leader for eighteenth-century scholarship, publishing the definitive edition of the Complete Works of Voltaire” , ie The Voltaire Foundation, based in Oxford UK Why does his biography @ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltaire fail to explain :
2.How did the child of a “ lawyer who was a minor treasury official” manage to define his century and more? acc Wikipedia as above?
3.Why did Arouet, Airvolt, Volta Ire etc etc “ is known also to have used at least 188 separate pen names during his lifetime.acc Wikipedia as above”?
Interested readers using Post #399 as a master key (fr. passpartout) may discover how and why Voltaire should at least be called “The Great” today just like , for instance, Prussian King Friedrich the Great and Russian Catherine the Great , both closerly linked to our hero than historians accept!
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JFEStuart and his aliases Part 1
Am 21. Juli 1711 Tilio de Camas (* 1688 in Wesel; † 14. April 1741 in Breslau wurde er Hauptmann (Kapitän)
18 Oct 1711 Luca Antonio Predieri (13 September 1688 – 3 January 1767) La virtù in trionfo o sia La Griselda (The triumph of virtue, or Griselda) dramma per musica in three acts, libretto by Tomaso Stanzani after Apostolo Zeno, premiered Bologna, Teatro Marsigli-Rossi, (score lost apart from the aria "Fa' di me ciò che ti piace
In 1711 Charles VI ( * 1 October 1685) left for Vienna to succeed as Emperor.
22 December 1711, Frankfurt Coronation of Charles VI 1 October 1685 – 20 October 1740) was Holy Roman Emperor and ruler of the Austrian Habsburg Monarchy from 1711 until his death
22 December 1711 Veracini's * February 1690 Violin Concerto in D Major, "a otto strumenti, di Francesco Maria Ueracini Suonato dallo stesso al post comunio", 1711), but was performed in Frankfurt rather than Venice, at Charles VI's coronation on 22 December 1711, just two days before Veracini's appearance as a soloist on Christmas Eve in Venice, some 800 kilometers to the south (Kolneder 1959–61; White 1972, 19).
conc early march 1712 Francesco Algarotti (born December 11, 1712, Venice [Italy]
14 avril 1712 Fontenelle apporte à un écrivain alors inconnu (Marivaux*1688) . Censeur de la Chancellerie, le secrétaire de l’Académie des sciences choisissait sans doute, avec l’abbé Bignon en charge de la Librairie, les manuscrits soumis à son « approbation ». Or il en signa pour les premières productions de Marivaux : le 14 avril 1712 pour trois livres des Effets surprenants de la sympathie, le 11 mai 1713 pour La Voiture embourbée et le 21 décembre 1713 pour les deux derniers livres des Effets surprenants
In April 1712, both James Francis Edward*1688 and his sister fell sick with smallpox. While the Old Pretender recovered, Louisa Maria died on 28 April (18 April, Old Style) and was buried with her father at the Church of the English Benedictines in Paris.[4]
On 11 May 1712, Sempill (*1672,0 Baron Robert Semple, 1st Jacobite Lord Sempill Death? 11 Nov 1737) } was the subject of a "declaration of nobility" by the exiled James Francis Edward Stuart*1688 DENT]], which recognised Semphill as the legitimate heir of his Lord Semphill ancestors and thereby created him Lord Sempill of Dykehead in the Jacobite peerage.[2] This was despite the title in the Peerage of Scotland remaining extant with Francis Sempill, 10th Lord Sempill as the holder
February 25 – Frederick William I *1688 of Prussia begins his reign.
on 1 March 1713 Christian August (29 November 1690, in Dornburg – 16 March 1747, in Zerbst) was elevated to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. After he took part in several military campaigns during the Spanish War of Succession and in the Netherlands, father if Catherine the Great
March 1713 to Aprl 11, 1713the Treaty of Utrecht was signed in by all the allies except the emperor
April 11, 1713 The representatives of France, Great Britain, and the Dutch Republic signed the Treaty of Utrecht on 11 April 1713 (N.S.)
30. März 1713 Angelo Predieri *1688? Maria e Giuseppe in traccia di Gesù Bologna, 30. März 1713
12/02/1715 Roma Teatro Capranica Astarto ) Amor prigioniero Predieri Luca Antonio (1688-1767) prima assoluta
On 14 March 1715, the Pretender*1688 appealed to Pope Clement XI for help for a Jacobite rising: "It is not so much a devoted son, oppressed by the injustices of his enemies, as a persecuted Church threatened with destruction, which appeals for the protection and help of its worthy pontiff".[1]
28. März 1715 Angelo Predieri La purificazione di Maria Vergine, Bologna
Guilio Alberoni, launched an attack on Sardinia(22August1717), at a time where the bulk of the Austrian forces were fighting the Turk on the Balkans52.
Il *pazzo per politica Predieri Luca Antonio (1688-1767) prima assoluta 1717 Livorno Teatro San Sebastiano
Date 7 juillet 1717 Contrat de mariage entre Pierre Carlet de Marivaux*1688 et Colombe Bologne.reached adulthood; she was otherwise seventh child and fourth daughter
August 1717 Dresden : Veracini (1 February 1690 – 31 October 1768)had to compose chamber music for the court (Landmann 2013, 5), transferring him to the official payroll as Kapellmeister in August 1717 (Prince Friedrich August, (27 August 1712 – 15 October 1770) who came to celebrate carnival. The Prince recruited not only singers, as he was told to do by his father, but also musicians for the court in Dresden)
26? dic. 1718 Firenze Teatro del Cocomero Partenope Predieri Luca Antonio (1688-1767)
January 23 1719 – The Principality of Liechtenstein is created, within the Holy Roman Empire.[1]
February 1719, Stuart*1688 and his supporter John Erskine, the Duke of Mar, followed David Nairne to Rome in mid-November 1718, where the latter figure organized accommodation for the Stuart court. Stuart stayed there until the beginning of February 1719, when he left for Spain.
20 February 1719 Handel explains his delay in visiting Michaelsen on pressing affairs, assures that he will soon visit, and makes enquiries as to his (Handel's) "Mama"*. ...Finally, Handel asks Michaelsen to present his compliments to Mr. Roth** and to all their friends. (Magister Christian Roth was Handel's cousin.)
25. März 1719 Angelo Predieri*1688 Jezabelle, Bologna, 25. März 1719 mit (Floriano Arresti)
By Arresti Jezabelle (in collaborazione con Giacomo Cesare Predieri,*1688 libretto di G.B. Neri; Bologna, Oratorio dei Filippini, 1719)
April -June 1719 Clementina, on her way to join the chevalier at Bologna, was arrested by the order of the emperor (to whom the goodwill of the British government was of paramount importance) at Innsbruck, whence Wogan, with three kinsmen, Richard Gaydon, Captain Missett, and Ensign Edward O'Toole, released her in a romantic manner (27 April 1719). For this exploit the pope, Clement XI, conferred upon Wogan the title of Roman senator
(13 June 1719). James *1688 rewarded Wogan by a baronetcy.
Back to “Voltaire” and his relations to the jacobites of James II *1688 Part1
According to Voltaire foundation article “Voltaire and the Jacobites”, of 20 March 2017 :
Voltaire was much better disposed towards the Scots Jacobites, as shown in the description of the ’45 rebellion included in his Précis du Siècle de Louis XV. In the course of that famous uprising, Voltaire had gone so far as to write a manifesto for Bonnie Prince Charlie (grandson of the deposed James II),He later befriended the Scottish Jacobite exile Field Marshall Keith, whose eulogy he wrote in 1758. He was less positive towards the Chevalier Andrew Michael Ramsay, a Scots convert to Catholicism and follower of Fénelon who once tutored Prince Charles Edward Stuart (‘Bonnie Prince Charlie’). Voltaire sniffed at Ramsay as a plagiarist.Voltaire never dismissed Jacobitism as backward or despotic. His positive attitude may have been shaped by his early friendships with Viscount Bolingbroke, an exiled Tory minister who was attracted to Jacobitism at various phases of his long career, and bishop Atterbury of Rochester. Bolingbroke welcomed Voltaire to his house at La Source near Orléans in December 1722. The Viscount admired the young French poet, but warned him to restrain the influence of his imagination. Bolingbroke also consulted Alexander Pope*1688 on the merits of Voltaire’s pirated epic, La Ligue, the first version of La Henriade. The image of King Henry IV of France presented in that poem may have appealed to Bolingbroke, who had tried in vain to persuade the Stuart claimant, James III, to change his religion in order to gain a throne.
Indeed, while Voltaire did correspond (some 20000-40000 letters) with most of Jacobilte leaders and other European celebrities of his time , Mystery 1 HE NEVER CORRESPONDED with James II the old pretender and his close contemporaries such as, for instance. Frederic William I of Prussia I*1688), even if he did have a very long correspondence with his son,. Frederick the Great. He also received Nov. 12, 1770 a letter from Frederic William II, grand son of Frederick William I, wanting to get to know him better . He propably did not answer it as he was at the time busy with Jakob Jonas Björnståhl (January 23, 1731 in Rotarbo – July 11, 1779 in Thessaloniki), orientalist,Greek philologis and a manuscript collector (minuscule 901, minuscule 902,
Voltaire also corresponded with George Keith, tenth and last Earl Marischal, a close associate of the old pretender King James . as follows:
In December, 1756, George Keith, Earl Marischal of Scotland (whom Voltaire had met in Prussia), arrived at Les Délices to plead with the man who was fast becoming Humanitarian-in-Chief of Europe to defend Admiral Byng--now arraigned on a charge of treason and cowardice. Voltaire wrote to his friend Richelieu, who replied in the first of the following letters, vindicating the character and conduct of his foe. Voltaire sent a copy of this letter to Byng with his own. He had met the Admiral many years before in England, but judged it better not to mention the acquaintance. The third letter--Voltaire to Richelieu--shows the fruitlessness of their efforts. Notwithstanding the recommandation to mercy, Byng was shot on March 14, 1757, and his defender, the author of Candide, added to it an immortel phrase, "In this country (England) it is as well to put an admiral to death now and then, to encourage the others." ]
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