Now available: Complete Works of Voltaire, vol.6A-6C, Lettres sur les Anglais (I-III), Oxford, Voltaire Foundation, 2022, ISBN 978-0-7294-1234-6, April 2022, hb, 4 vol.

The ‘Lettres sur les Anglais’ (also known as the ‘Lettres philosophiques’) is one of the key masterpieces of the European eighteenth century, a manifesto of Enlightenment thinking…[Read more]

Complete Works of Voltaire, vol.29C
Voltaire, Précis du siècle de Louis XV (III)
Histoire de la guerre de 1741 | Appendix 5 | General index
Ed. Janet Godden, James Hanrahan
Oxford, Voltaire Foundation, 2020
ISBN 978-0-7294-1226-1, hb, xxxvi+506 pp.

‘This edition should make it possible to study these works in new ways and will substantially exp…[Read more]

Just published: Complete Works of Voltaire, vol.6C, Lettres sur les Anglais (III): Lettre sur M. Locke.

Letter 13 of Voltaire’s “Lettres sur les Anglais” discusses Locke and the question of the soul. The first version of this text, the “Lettre sur M. Locke” – which we present in this volume – was suppressed in 1733 because of its quasi…[Read more]

Just published: Complete Works of Voltaire, vol.84, Fragments divers

Œuvres complètes de Voltaire, vol.84
Fragments divers
Ed. Gillian Pink, John Renwick et al.
Oxford, Voltaire Foundation, 2020
ISBN 978-0-7294-1153-0, hb, xxii+408 pp.

This volume brings together a range of miscellaneous short texts by Voltaire, mostly undated and principally m…[Read more]

Just published: Complete Works of Voltaire, vol.29A
Précis du siècle de Louis XV (I): Introduction, chapters 1-16
Ed. Janet Godden and James Hanrahan
Oxford, Voltaire Foundation, 2019
ISBN 978-0-7294-1137-0, hb, 7 ill., xxii+476 p.
(http://www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/book/pr%C3%A9cis-du-si%C3%A8cle-de-louis-xv-i)

The Précis du siècle de Louis XV is Vol…[Read more]

Subject: Just published: Correspondance générale de La Beaumelle, vol.XV

The Voltaire Foundation has just published volume 15 in the 18-volume set of correspondence of the French Huguenot man of letters, Laurent Angliviel de La Beaumelle:

Correspondance générale de La Beaumelle, vol.XV: janvier 1764-décembre 1766
Ed. Hubert Bost, Claude Laur…[Read more]

Just published: Voltaire, “Notes et écrits marginaux conservés hors de la Bibliothèque nationale de Russie”.
Complete works of Voltaire, vol.145
Complément au Corpus des notes marginales de Voltaire, sous la direction de Gillian Pink
Oxford, Voltaire Foundation, 2019; ISBN 978-0-7294-0890-5

This volume is a complement to the “Corpus des notes mar…[Read more]

Just published: Voltaire, Siècle de Louis XIV (IA) and (IB): Introduction
Complete Works of Voltaire, vol.11A and vol.11B, ed. Diego Venturino et al.

First drafted in the early 1730s, published in 1751 and repeatedly revised up to 1775, the Siècle de Louis XIV is a milestone in Voltaire’s career as historian-philosopher. The work signals the beg…[Read more]

Just published: Voltaire, ‘Annales de l’Empire depuis Charlemagne’ (I-III)
Complete works of Voltaire, vol.44A-C, ed. Gérard Laudin and John Renwick
3-volume complete edition: ISBN 978-0-7294-1227-8, hb, 3 vols.

Written at the behest of Luise-Dorothea of Saxe-Meiningen, the ‘Annales de l’Empire’ were first published in 1754 and present a ch…[Read more]

New book: Sur les traces de Jean Potocki: Etudes réunies et présentées par Emilie Klene
Ed. Emilie Klene
(http://www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/book/sur-les-traces-de-jean-potocki)

De récents travaux ont remis sur le devant de la scène cet auteur inclassable qu’est Jean Potocki (1761-1815). Réunissant une vingtaine de contributions transdi…[Read more]

Dear members of Humanities Commons,

The Voltaire Foundation in Oxford, UK, has published a new book: “Night in French libertine fiction”, by Marine Ganofsky (http://www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/book/night-french-libertine-fiction).

Between the start of the Régence (1715-1723) and the French Revolution the nocturnal and the erotic became intrinsically…[Read more]