Voltaire

French Enlightenment writer and philosopher. Lacordaire refers to Voltaire calling the Song of Songs "a guardroom ballad" and adds "with such taste" — ironically rebuking his dismissal.

Pope Clement VIII, Jerome's Prefaces, On Worship

• ON THE WORSHIP OF JESUS CHRIST IN THE SCRIPTURES. — Lacordaire refers to Voltaire calling the Song of Songs "a guardroom ballad" and adds "with such taste" — ironically rebuking Voltaire's dismissal

  "that famous Song of Songs, which Voltaire called with such taste a guardroom ballad"