伟人往往是时代的象征,所以法国人把十七世纪看成路易十四的世纪,把十八世纪视为伏尔泰的世纪。伏尔泰是启蒙运动的领袖,是当时欧洲思想界的泰斗。他既是哲学家、历史学家、诗人、剧作家和小说家,又是法国历史上第一 Great men are often symbols of the times, so the French saw the seventeenth century as a century of Louis XIV and the eighteenth century as the century of Voltaire. Voltaire, the leader of the Enlightenment, was a great leader in European thought at the time. He is both a philosopher, historian, poet, playwright and novelist, but also the first in French history