Voltaire & Rousseau's Best Friend Breakup – Valentine's Day Special

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Watch as two of the smartest men in French history bravely push the bounds of being the pettiest, most toxic idiots possible. SOURCES & Further Reading: Rousseau’s Discourse on the Arts and Sciences, Discourse on Inequality, Confessions Voltaire’s Candide “Rousseau, the Age of Enlightenment, and Their Legacies” chapter 5 “The Enlightenment Hostilities of Voltaire and Rousseau” (https://dokumen.pub/rousseau-the-age-of-enlightenment-and-their-legacies-core-textbooknbsped-9781400842407.html) Britannica Rousseau (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jean-Jacques-Rousseau) and Voltaire (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Voltaire) University of Oxford, Voltaire Foundation for Enlightenment Studies “About Voltaire” (https://www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/about-voltaire/) Kat Eschner, Smithsonian Mag, “Voltaire: Enlightenment Philosopher and Lottery Scammer” (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/voltaire-enlightenment-philosopher-and-lottery-scammer-180967265/) Rousseau, Letter to Voltaire, 1756 (https://archive.org/details/RousseauToVoltairet.marshall/page/n5/mode/2up) Voltaire, Letter to Hume, 1766 (https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_a-letter-from-mons-de-v_voltaire_1766) Jean-Jacques Rousseau, “Various Letters from JJ Rousseau” in Complete Collection of Works, Geneva, 1780-1789, translated from French by Google Translate (https://www.rousseauonline.ch/Text/lettres-diverses-de-jj-rousseau.php) MUSIC: "Sneaky Snitch" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up. PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP PODCAST: https://overlysarcasticpodcast.transistor.fm/subscribe DISCORD: https://discord.gg/osp MERCH: https://overlysarcastic.shop/ OUR WEBSITE: https://www.OverlySarcasticProductions.com/ Find us on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/overlysarcastic.bsky.social Find us on Reddit https://www.Reddit.com/r/OSP/ Want this video in another language? Check out our guide to contributing translated captions: https://www.overlysarcasticproductions.com/community-captions