A 250-year-old book by the Enlightenment anti-establishment writer Voltaire is climbing best-seller lists in France weeks after attacks by French-born Islamic extremists that left 20 people dead, including the gunmen.
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Stephane Charbonnier, the Charlie Hebdo editor better known as “Charb” who was killed in the attacks, wrote two books riffing on Voltaire’s title, called “Little Treatise on Intolerance” with the subtitle “I laugh about what I want, when I want.” Those books are also selling briskly, as is a novel by Michel Houellebecq imagining France with a Muslim president.
