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Voltaire Network. The Voltaire Network ( French: Réseau Voltaire) is an international non-profit advocacy and alternative media organisation founded and led by French journalist Thierry Meyssan. It specialices in international relations and has become known for advocating conspiracy theories, notably relating to the 9/11 terrorist attacks and ...
Voltaire was a versatile and prolific writer, producing works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, histories, but also scientific expositions. He wrote more than 20,000 letters and 2,000 books and pamphlets. Voltaire was one of the first authors to become renowned and commercially successful internationally.
The author, Voltaire. The Dictionnaire philosophique ( Philosophical Dictionary) is an encyclopedic dictionary published by the Enlightenment thinker Voltaire in 1764. The alphabetically arranged articles often criticize the Roman Catholic Church, Judaism, Islam, and other institutions. The first edition, released in June 1764, went by the name ...
Complete Works of Voltaire. The Complete Works of Voltaire ( Œuvres complètes de Voltaire) is the first critical edition of the totality of Voltaire 's writings (in the original French) arranged chronologically. [1] [2] The project was started by the bibliographer and translator Theodore Besterman who only lived to see the first two volumes ...
Les Dialogues d'Evhémère. Les Dialogues d’Evhémère ( The Dialogues of Euhemerus) is a little-known philosophical dialogue by Voltaire, published in 1777. At the time of its writing he was 83 years old and knew that he was coming to the end of his life: [1] the work is a kind of philosophical testament. Like many other works by Voltaire ...
The Age of Louis XIV. The Age of Louis XIV ( Le Siècle de Louis XIV, also translated The Century of Louis XIV) is a historical work by the French historian, philosopher, and writer Voltaire, first published in 1751. [1] Through it, the French 17th century became identified with Louis XIV of France, who reigned from 1643 to 1715.
Various sources report that Voltaire resolved to write The Maid of Orleans after a literary colleague challenged him to compose a better analysis of the Joan of Arc subject than the treatment Jean Chapelain had produced in his The Maid, or the Heroic Poem of France Delivered. Published in the mid-17th century, Chapelain's poem was a lengthy and ...
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