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Voltaire (1694–1778)

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The pen name of François-Marie Arouet, a French philosopher from the Enlightenment.

Voltaire

Scans

Works

Novels and fiction

• Zadig (1748)
• Micromegas (1752)
• Candide, or Optimism (Candide, ou l’Optimisme, 1759)
• Jeannot and Colin (1764)
• Memnon
• The Princess of Babylon, 1768
• Zayre, 1733
• Oreste, 1750
• The Good Brahmin (Histoire d'un bon Brahmin, 1759)
• The Huron; or, Pupil of Nature (L'Ingénu, 1767)
• The Civil War of Geneva, 1768
• The White Bull (Le Taureau blanc, 1774)

Poems

• Azolan
• On the Death of Adrienne Lecouvreur
• From Love to Friendship
• In Camp Before Philippsburg, July 3, 1734
• The Origin of Trades
• The Padlock
• Thelema and Macareus
• To a Lady Very Well Known to the Whole Town
• To Her Royal Highness, the Princess of ***
• To the Queen of Hungary
• Poem on the Lisbon Disaster

Plays

• Œdipe (1718)
• Eriphile (1732)
• Irène
• Mahomet (1736)
• Mérope
• Nanine
• Zaïre (1732)

Other works

• In Connection with the Death of Jean Calas
• On Superstition
• On the Interpretation of the Old Testament
• On the Interpretation of the New Testament
• Epistle to the Romans
• The Sermon of the Fifty
• The Questions of Zapata
• We Must Take Sides
• Philosophical Dictionary (Dictionnaire philosophique, 1764)
• Epistle to the Author of the Three Impostors (Épître à l’auteur du livre des trois imposteurs, 1770)
• Letters concerning the English Nation (1733)
• Toleration and other essays (1912) translated by Joseph MacCabe

Letters

• Letter From Voltaire to Jonathan Swift - 1 (June 1727)
• Letter From Voltaire to Jonathan Swift - 2 (1727)
• Letter From Voltaire to Jonathan Swift - 3 (December 14, 1727)
• Letter From Voltaire to Jonathan Swift - 4 (1727)
• Letter From Voltaire to Charles Jean-Baptiste Fleuriau – 1 (June 1727)

Works about Voltaire

• “Voltaire in the Netherlands,” in Littell's Living Age, 134 (1726) By Jhr. C.A. Van Sypesteyn.
• “Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de” by Parke Godwin in The American Cyclopædia, 1879.
• “Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de,” by George Saintsbury in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911
• “Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet,” in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)