I argue about Voltaire with Gemini Pro and mostly lose but manage to make it reconsider...
I argue about Voltaire with Gemini Pro and mostly lose but manage to make it reconsider... A bit. (Although clearly it's been trained to be nice to me.) User Question: Explore the relationship between Voltaire and Benjamin Franklin, including their membership of The Lodge. Assistant Response: A Tale of Two Titans: Voltaire, Benjamin Franklin, and the Masonic Bond That United Them In the twilight of the Enlightenment, two of its most formidable figures, Voltaire and Benjamin Franklin, shared a connection that transcended their celebrated intellectual pursuits and culminated in a shared membership within the prestigious Parisian Masonic lodge, Les Neuf Sœurs (The Nine Sisters). Their relationship, though brief due to Voltaire's advanced age, was a potent symbol of the era's revolutionary ideals of liberty, reason, and fraternity. Their most famous public encounter occurred in April 1778 at the Academy of Sciences in Paris. The event, eagerly anticipated by the city's in...