Ce volume contient les articles que Voltaire redigea pour l'Encyclopedie, ainsi que ceux pour la quatrieme edition du Dictionnaire de l'Academie (1762).
The year 1749 was to prove a sombre one for Voltaire. His relationships with Mme Du Chatelet and Mme Denis were both in highly emotional and uncertain stages, culminating in …
Leaving school determined to be a poet, Voltaire's satires were admired in aristocratic circles as well as the freethinking, hedonistic "Societe du Temple". However, they soon …
Dans ce quatrième tome des Questions sur l’Enyclopédie, Voltaire tisse de nouveaux réseaux entre articles. Des considérations littéraires scandent le volume de façon marquée: …
The first of three volumes of Voltaire's writings of 1746-1748, containing a major tragedy ("Sémiramis", edited by Robert Niklaus), a comedy ("La Femme qui a raison", edited by …
This volume brings together works substantially composed in the years 1723 - 1728, a period of bold experimentation for the thirty-year-old Voltaire. An established tragedian, he …
Ce volume comprend plusieurs dialogues et autres textes courts que Voltaire écrivit en 1750 et 1751, lors de ses derniers mois en France avant son départ pour la cour de l’empereur …
Lancees six ans apres le "Dictionnaire philosophique", les "Questions sur l'Encyclopedie" sont un des derniers chefs-d'oeuvre de Voltaire. OEuvre alphabetique, oeuvre polemique …
1739-1741 were stressful but highly creative years for Voltaire, his output ranging from science to polemic, from politics to poetry. Scientific research remains at the forefront, …
Written substantially in the late 1740s and published between 1747 and 1749, the three contes which are collected in this volume are among the best known of Voltaire’s works. They …
