Voltaire - Libros y biografía

The Chinese tragedy, which they call "The Orphan," was taken out of an immense collection of the theatrical performances of that nation, which has cultivated this art for about three thousand years before...

A collection containing Alzire, Amelia, Brutus, Caliline, Mahomet, Mariamne, Merope, Nanine, Oedipus, Olympia, Orestes, Pandora, Semiramis, Socrates, The Orphan of China, The Prude, & The Scotch Woman.

Don't imagine, my dear, that, by what I'm going to say, I mean to exercise the authority of a mother, always ready as you know I am, to listen in my turn to your reasons when I think them good; my intention...

I don't belong to the house, sir; but I spend most of my time in the coffee-room; write news, politics, and so forth, and am always ready to do an honest gentleman service. If you have any friend you...

This comedy is partly imitated from an English piece, called the Plain Dealer. It does not suit very well for the French stage; the manners are too rough and bold, though much less so than in the original....

This anthology is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these literary masterworks. For those who have known and loved these works in the past, this is an...

A collection containing Candide and the plays Alzire, Amelia, Brutus, Caliline, Mahomet, Mariamne, Merope, Nanine, Oedipus, Olympia, Orestes, Pandora, Semiramis, Socrates, The Orphan of China, The Prude,...

Le 13 octobre 1761, Marc-Antoine Calas, un jeune protestant toulousain, est retrouvé pendu. La rumeur circule qu’il avait l’intention de se convertir au catholicisme. Le père, Jean Calas, est déclaré...

1766 : L’affaire Sirven occupe toujours un Voltaire déjà plus que septuagénaire. D’Abbeville, arrive une rumeur : un jeune homme d’un peu plus de vingt ans, François-Jean Lefebvre de La Barre vient d’être...

Le 28 février 1766, le chevalier de La Barre, jeune homme de dix-huit ans accusé d’avoir gardé son chapeau et chanté des chansons impies sur le passage d’une procession, est condamné à avoir la langue...

« Nous osons croire, à l’honneur du siècle où nous vivons, qu’il n’y a point dans toute l’Europe un seul homme éclairé qui ne regarde la tolérance comme un droit de justice, un devoir prescrit par l’humanité,...

Orestes was produced in 1750, an experiment which intensely interested the literary world and the public. In his Dedicatory Letters to the Duchess of Maine, Voltaire has the following passage on the Greek...

Socrates is a play in three acts about Socrates and the events of his trial and eventual death. Satirical in nature it takes aim at government authority and organized religion. Voltaire's contempt for...

"This Comedy is called in the French Nanine, ou le Préjugé Vaincu (Nanine, or Prejudice Overcome). It is written, as we are told in the title-page, in verses of ten syllables. The absurdity of comedies...

Fate would make us wretched here, But hope shall dry up every tear; In sorrow he shall give us rest, And make us even in anguish blest: Love shall preserve us from the paths of vice, And strew his flowers...

Yet it is too soon. When I possess the crown, your faithful eyes Shall be the witnesses of all my deeds. Stay in this porch, the priestesses to-day Present Olympia to the powers divine: This day in secret...

It is enough: the power of Salome, By all acknowledged, and by all obeyed, On its firm basis stands immovable: I fled to Azor, with the lightning's speed, Even from Samaria's plain to Jordan's spring,...

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This powerful work was read by Voltaire to Frederick of Prussia in 1740, to the king's great delight. The play was withdrawn after the fourth representation, under pressure of Church authorities who professed...

Œdipus was written when Voltaire was but nineteen years of age. It was played for the first time in 1718, and ran for forty-five nights. Du Frêsne, a celebrated actor, and of the same age as the author,...

This tragedy is founded on historical truth. A duke of Brittany, in the year 1387, commanded the lord of Bavalan to assassinate the constable of Clisson: Bavalan, the day after, told the duke it was done:...

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« Un jour Saint Dunstan, Irlandais de nation et saint de profession, partit d'Irlande sur une petite montagne qui vogua vers les côtes de France, et arriva par cette voiture à la baie de Saint-Malo. »...

Voltaire autobiographe ? On est tenté de rire, Les Confessions en main, ou saint Augustin en mémoire. Et pourtant, le satiriste le plus cinglant de notre histoire s'y est pris à trois fois pour se raconter......

Composé en 1762, le Traité sur la tolérance a pour origine la condamnation à mort du protestant Calas, injustement accusé du meurtre de son fils sur le point de se convertir au catholicisme. Dans une...

Zadig est un modèle de vertu et d’intégrité, gonflé d’enthousiasme, avide de découvrir le monde. Mais la fortune, tour à tour favorable ou cruelle, s’amuse à perturber le voyage initiatique du jeune homme....

Riche, intelligent et beau garçon, Zadig, modèle de sagesse et de vertu, a tout pour être heureux! Pourtant, la destinée en a décidé autrement… Trahi par sa première épouse, jalousé par des courtisans...

The 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,...

Written in the tongue-in-cheek manner for which he was famous, Monsieur de Voltaire's memoirs reveal a new perspective on the international politics and history of the 18th century. Voltaire's role as...

Candide est un jeune garçon vivant au château du baron de Thunder-ten-tronckh qui se trouve en Westphalien. Il a pour maître Pangloss, philosophe qui enseigne la « métaphysico-théologo-cosmolonigologie...