@article{351483,
      note = {Originally published: London : Profile, 2010.},
      author = {Davidson, Ian,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/351483},
      title = {Voltaire : a life /},
      publisher = {Pegasus Books,},
      abstract = {Davidson tells the whole, rich story of Voltaire's life  (1694-1778): his early imprisonment in the Bastille; exile  in England and his mastery of English; an obsession with  money, of which he made a huge amount; a scandalous love  life; his infatuation with Frederick the Great; a long  exile on the borders of Switzerland; his passion for  watch-making; his human rights campaigns and his triumphant  return to Paris to die there as celebrity extraordinaire.},
      recid = {351483},
      pages = {xx, 538 p., [16] p. of plates :},
      address = {New York, NY :},
      year = {2010},
}