OPINION BY Genc Kondi Crime, terror and the opposition One of the emblematic slogans of the French Enlightenment, which also became a battle cry for the American Revolution, was Voltaire's statement: “I do not agree with your opinion, but I would do everything I can so that you m
COMMENTARY BY Tom Holland*) Voltaire’s gift, the roots of the struggle for free speech Religions do not exist only to have martyrs. On 1 July 1766, in Abbeville, in northern France, a nobleman named Lefebvre de la Barre was found guilty of blasphemy. The accusations against him w