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This Very Short Introduction examines Voltaire's (1694-1778) remarkable life and career. Exploring his most important writings, the impact his work had on our understanding of the European Enlightenment, and his status as a literary celebrity at t...

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Voltaire (1694-1778), best remembered as the author of Candide, is one of the central actors - arguably the defining personality - of the European Enlightenment. In this Very Short Introduction, Nicholas Cronk explores Voltaire's remarkable career...

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Voltaire (1694-1778), best remembered as the author of Candide, is one of the central actors - arguably the defining personality - of the European Enlightenment. In this Very Short Introduction, Nicholas Cronk explores Voltaire's remarkable career...

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'unless you know everything, you really know nothing'Diderot's brilliant and witty dialogue begins with a chance encounter in a Paris caf between two acquaintances. Their talk ranges broadly across art, music, education, and the contemporary scene...

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'unless you know everything, you really know nothing'Diderot's brilliant and witty dialogue begins with a chance encounter in a Paris caf between two acquaintances. Their talk ranges broadly across art, music, education, and the contemporary scene...

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`Tonight When I make my sweeping bow at heaven's gate, One thing I shall still possess, at any rate, Unscathed, something outlasting mortal flesh, And that is ... My panache.'The first English translation of Cyrano de Bergerac, in 1898, introduced...

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'What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?'Voltaire's Pocket Philosophical Dictionary, first published in 1764, is a major work of t...

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'What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?'Voltaire's Pocket Philosophical Dictionary, first published in 1764, is a major work of t...

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The novella has never been out of print and has been translated into every conceivable language. The text of this Norton Critical Edition remains that of Robert M. Adams's superlative translation, accompanied by explanatory annotations. This editi...

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As a leading thinker of the European Enlightenment, Voltaire is a central figure in France's collective cultural memory. The popularity of Candide has made him perhaps best known as a writer of tales. Yet these represent only a fraction of his ent...

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As a leading thinker of the European Enlightenment, Voltaire is a central figure in France's collective cultural memory. The popularity of Candide has made him perhaps best known as a writer of tales. Yet these represent only a fraction of his ent...

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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, with Voltaire championing Newton's theories despite the opposition ...

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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 earned him notoriety, and, in 1717, eleven months imprisonmen...

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Dans sa Correspondance, Voltaire invite a ne pas negliger ses 'petites notes', 'tres instructives', 'fortes edifiantes', 'un peu insolentes' et d'ailleurs 'curieuses'. On l'a pris au mot. Ce recueil d'etudes, apres avoir replace la pratique voltai...

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This volume completes the edition of Voltaire's writings of 1746-1748, highlighting once again the incredible diversity of Voltaire's oeuvre. It contains some short texts published for the first time in the Dresden edition of 1748, notably on poli...

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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 comme le "Dictionnaire", les "Quest...

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Racine est devenu le 'classique francais' par excellence, tant dans la lecture que sur scene. Son exemple montre combien l'etude de la reception d'une oeuvre theatrale ne saurait se borner a sa textualite et aux questions d'influences, mais exige ...

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Part of the complete works of the French philosopher, historian and social reformer, Voltaire. Contains three works not by Voltaire, but to which he has added prefaces and often satirical footnotes. For students and scholars of the 18th-century En...

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Part of the complete works of the French philosopher, historian and social reformer, Voltaire. Contains chapters 1-37 of his world history which retrace the development of civilisation from the Near East to the Orient. For students and scholars of...

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Part of the complete works of the French philosopher, historian and social reformer, Voltaire. Contains essays and poetry on religious, political and literary themes. For students and scholars of the 18th-century Enlightenment.

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The comedy "L'Envieux" is a thinly veiled allegory of the Cirey household and of Desfontaines's underhand manoeuvres against it. With the publication of Desfontaines's "Voltairomanie" in December 1738, Voltaire had to abandon t...

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Part of the complete works of the French philosopher, historian and social reformer, Voltaire. Addresses a broad range of subjects in religion, history, art and literature. Voltaire's longest text and neglected masterpiece. For students and schola...

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'La methode des dictionnaires [...] est d'une utilite qu'on ne peut contester' ecrit Voltaire dans les "Questions sur l'Encyclopedie". Mais s'il se plie a l'ordre alphabetique dans ce compendium de sa pensee, il n'obeit pas aux autres re...

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Dans ce quatrieme tome des Questions sur l'Enyclopedie, Voltaire tisse de nouveaux reseaux entre articles. Des considerations litteraires scandent le volume de facon marquee: 'Eglogue', 'Embleme', 'Epopee', 'Fable', 'Fiction', 'Figure' et 'Francoi...

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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 comme le "Dictionnaire", les "Quest...

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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 comme le "Dictionnaire", les "Quest...

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C'est 'le plein Moyen Age', du dixieme au quatorzieme siecle, qu'evoque Voltaire dans ces trente chapitres. Structuration et centralisation progressives des differents etats europeens, lutte entre sacerdoce et Empire, chasse aux 'heretiques' et pr...

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The 1760s was a pivotal decade for the philosophes. In the late 1750s their cause had been at a low ebb, but it was transformed in the eyes of public opinion by such events as the Calas affair in the early 1760s. By the end of the decade, the phil...

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