He went to see the newcomer, an enthusiastic man, who told him, "On your trips you should read Voltaire and Rousseau.

Maynooth did not exist, and the priest was educated in the liberal atmosphere of a French College, and possibly both of them read Voltaire and Gibbon.

His early writings show a man who read Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Voltaire, but his ideals were closer to the theories of Montesquieu and the Physiocrats.

The whole of this passage is spoken by the Wanderer, except for the last lines where the The Solitary (called the Sceptic because he reads Voltaire) answers back.

Early on, in hiding, he spent evenings reading Voltaire, Diderot too, on the subject of free speech.

He seized Flavia by the shoulders and shook her,, looked into her face and bellowed, 'So that's the little girl who reads Voltaire at the bistro.'

As he grew older, Pérez also became politically aware and managed to read Voltaire, Rousseau, and Marx without the knowledge of his deeply conservative parents.

I confess I haven't read it (but then, I haven't read Voltaire either).

To the Editor: I am a well-educated individual who reads Voltaire, Colette and Flaubert.