Lancées six ans après le "Dictionnaire philosophique", les "Questions sur l'Encyclopédie" sont un des derniers chefs-d'œuvre de Voltaire. Œuvre alphabétique, œuvre polémique comme …
Theodore Besterman’s edition of the notebooks Voltaire kept throughout his long life show not only the staggering breadth of his interests, but the wide reading, inquiry and …
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 …
This volume completes the edition of Voltaire’s writings of 1746-1748, highlighting once again the incredible diversity of Voltaire’s œuvre. It contains some short texts published …
Part of the complete works of the French philosopher, historian and social reformer, Voltaire. Two in a 13-volume set which reprints Voltaire's marginal notes in the alphabetical …
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 …
"Paméla" and the "Mémoires pour servir à la vie de Monsieur de Voltaire" are accounts of the author’s own life, concentrating particularly on his relationship with the king of …
‘La méthode des dictionnaires […] est d’une utilité qu’on ne peut contester’ écrit Voltaire dans les "Questions sur l’Encyclopédie". Mais s’il se plie à l’ordre alphabétique dans …
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, …
