Melanges De Litterature, Histoire Et Poesies (1776)

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Kessinger Publishing, 2009 - History - 470 pages
Le livre ""M langes de Litt rature, Histoire et Po sies"" de Voltaire, publi en 1776, est une collection d' crits vari s de l'auteur, comprenant des essais, des po mes, des lettres et des extraits de ses travaux historiques. Les sujets abord s dans ce livre sont tr s divers, allant de la critique litt raire la philosophie, en passant par l'histoire et la politique. Voltaire y exprime ses opinions sur des sujets tels que la libert de pens e, la tol rance religieuse, la monarchie et la justice. Le livre contient galement des po mes de Voltaire, qui sont souvent satiriques et humoristiques. Dans l'ensemble, ""M langes de Litt rature, Histoire et Po sies"" est un livre qui refl te la vari t des int r ts et des talents de Voltaire, ainsi que son engagement en faveur de la libert et de la justice.This Book Is In French.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

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About the author (2009)

François-Marie Arouet known as Voltaire, was born in Paris in 1694. He was educated by the Jesuits at the Collège Louis-le-Grand (1704-1711), where he learned Latin and Greek; later in life he became fluent in Italian, Spanish, and English. By the time he left school, Voltaire had decided he wanted to be a writer. His father then obtained a job for him as a secretary to the French ambassador in the Netherlands. Most of Voltaire's early life revolved around Paris. From early on, Voltaire had trouble with the authorities for critiques of the government and religious intolerance. These activities were to result in two imprisonments and a temporary exile to England. The name "Voltaire", which the author adopted in 1718, is an anagram of "AROVET LI," the Latinized spelling of his surname, Arouet, and the initial letters of "le jeune" ("the young"). The name also echoes in reverse order the syllables of the name of a family château in the Poitou region: "Airvault". The adoption of the name "Voltaire" following his incarceration at the Bastille is seen by many to mark Voltaire's formal separation from his family and his past. Voltaire continued to write plays, such as Mérope (or La Mérope française) and began his long research into science and history. From 1762, he began to champion unjustly persecuted people, the case of Jean Calas being the most celebrated. This Huguenot merchant had been tortured to death in 1763, supposedly because he had murdered his son for wanting to convert to Catholicism. His possessions were confiscated and his remaining children were taken from his widow and were forced to become members of a monastery. Voltaire, seeing this as a clear case of religious persecution, managed to overturn the conviction in 1765. n February 1778, Voltaire returned for the first time in 20 years to Paris. He soon became ill again and died on 30 May 1778.

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