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Volume 4 of the "Corpus des notes marginales", long out of print, was first published by Akademie-Verlag in Berlin, in 1988. It was reissued in the Œuvres complètes de Voltaire …
In 1767-1768 Voltaire wrote multiple times to the French authorities, whether to persuade them to improve living conditions in the Pays de Gex or to defend his own reputation as a …
This complement to the "Corpus des notes marginales series" reproduces marginalia by Voltaire found in works outside of his personal library in both printed books and manuscripts. …
This essential research work for Voltaire scholars reproduces Voltaire’s own annotations written in the margins of the books in his library, now owned by the National Library of …
Voltaire’s "Ode sur la mort de la princesse de Bareith" laments the death of Frederick the Great’s sister and the horrors of the Seven Years War. Norman French, Greeks and Arabs …
A la sortie en 1769 de "L'Histoire du parlement de Paris" la France traversait une phase de conflit politique, puisque le parlement contestait énergiquement le pouvoir royal. …
The writings gathered together in volume 73 of the Complete works were substantially written in 1771, when Voltaire was seventy-six years old. Despite periods of illness and …
Ce volume donne un bon aperçu des combats qui occupent Voltaire au début des années 1770: qu’il s’agisse de se battre pour la survivance du théâtre français issu du Grand Siècle …
En 1773, Voltaire écrit plusieurs courts textes pour défendre le comte de Morangiés, accusé d’avoir volé une famille de prêteurs sur gages. Ce faisant, Voltaire se plaint du rôle …