Œuvres complètes de Voltaire (Complete Works of Voltaire) 84

This volume brings together a range of miscellaneous short texts by Voltaire, mostly undated and principally manuscript fragments. From thoughts on the souls of animals, to how he organised his papers to a joke proxy granting unlimited powers to act on his behalf, these scraps shed light on Voltaire’s working methods and on the possible subjects of texts that he never published. Most notably, it contains a supplement adding nineteen fragments to the edition of Voltaire’s Notebooks (OCV, vol.81-82). Contributors: David Adams, Andrew Brown, Marie-Hélène Cotoni, Nicholas Cronk, Jean Dagen, Stéphanie Géhanne Gavoty, Myrtille Méricam-Bourdet, Christiane Mervaud, Gillian Pink, John Renwick, Gerhardt Stenger, David Williams.