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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Treatise on Tolerance on the Occasion of the Death of Jean Calas from the Judgment Rendered in Toulouse (Traité sur la tolérance) is a work by French philosopher Voltaire, published in 1763, in which he calls for religious toleration, and targets religious fanaticism, especially that of the Jesuits (under whom Voltaire received his early education), indicting all superstitions ...
Red Mecca is the fourth studio album by English industrial band Cabaret Voltaire, released in September 1981 through Rough Trade Records. Background [ edit ] While touring the United States in November 1979, Cabaret Voltaire became strongly interested in the rise of the Christian right in the country and its use of television, especially the ...
V. Reine Philiberte de Varicourt. Charles, marquis de Villette. Voltaire (crater) Voltaire Foundation.