Voltaire : a life / Ian Davidson.
Davidson, Ian, 1935-
2010
PQ2099 .D38 2010b (Mapit)
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Title Voltaire : a life / Ian Davidson.
Author Davidson, Ian, 1935-
Edition 1st Pegasus Books hardcover ed.
ISBN 9781605981192
1605981192
Imprint New York, NY : Pegasus Books, 2010.
Language English
Description xx, 538 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm.
Call Number PQ2099 .D38 2010b
Dewey Decimal Classification 848.509
Summary 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.
Note Originally published: London : Profile, 2010.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Youth : 1694-1713
Comédie Française : 1714-1718
Money, and the shortage of it : 1718-1722
Friends and lovers : 1722-1723
La Henriade : 1723-1726
From the court to the Bastille : 1725-1726
In England : 1726-1728
Return to France : 1729-1733
Lettres philosophiques : 1731-1733
Voltaire and Emilie : 1733-1734
Émilie comes and goes : 1734-1735
The intellectual love-nest : 1735-1738
Ordeal of Mme de Graffigny : 1738-1739
Émilie's court case : 1739-1740
Mission to Potsdam : 1741-1743
Voltaire at court again : 1744-1746
End of a relationship : 1746-1747
Death of Émilie : 1748-1749
Voltaire in Prussia : 1750-1753
Humiliation at Frankfurt : 1750-1753
Sentence of exile : 1754-1755
Encyclopédie : 1753-1759
Ferney : 1758-1761
Mlle Corneille : 1760-1763
Campaigns for justice : 1761-1765
Damilaville : 1765
Beccaria : 1765-1766
Chevalier de La Barre : 1765-1768
Geneva troubles : 1765-1768
The quarrel with Mme Denis : 1767-1769
Watch-making at Ferney : 1770-1776
Last campaigns : 1770-1778
Triumph and death : 1778.

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