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Chemerinsky, arguably the foremost First Amendment scholar in the country, believes, in the Voltairean tradition, that free speech is the bedrock of a free society.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 25, 2018

Under Napoleon's very thumb, Mme. de Sta�l helped keep alive the Voltairean ardor for liberty; against his expressed wishes she introduced into France the disturbing spirit of German mysticism and romanticism that he most deplored.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was a Voltairean in the intensity of his antipathies to the Church, and in the depth and energy of his humanity.

From Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Essay 3: Condorcet by Morley, John

An old subscriber to the Constitutionnel, a liberal, a Voltairean, who comes over to the enemy bag and baggage.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright

I say Voltairean, because I am not able to describe it by any other word.

From Pepita Ximenez by Valera, Juan