Micromégas: Voltaire (French Edition)

Politics & Social Sciences

Arouet, François-Marie

Philosophy

Independently published

VOLTAIRE, pseudonyme de François-Marie Arouet (1694-1778), est un romancier, historien, poète, dramaturge et polémiste. Voltaire est le génie universel des Lumières et l’une des figures principales des cercles parisiens de la libre pensée. Originaire d'un milieu bourgeois, son père est notaire, il fait de brillantes études chez les jésuites de Louis-Le-Grand. Des vers irrévérencieux l'obligent à rester en province, puis provoquent son incarcération à la Bastille (1717). Une altercation avec le chevalier Rohan-Chabot le conduit de nouveau à la Bastille, puis le contraint à un exil de trois ans en Angleterre. Des poèmes officiels lui permettent d'entrer à l'Académie Française et à la Cour comme historiographe du roi en 1746. Cependant "Zadig" l'oblige à s'exiler à Potsdam sur l'invitation de Frédéric II de Prusse, puis à Genève. Le restant de sa vie il préfère le vouer à une paisible retraite à la campagne, d´abord en Champagne, en compagnie de Mme du Châtelet, plus tard à Ferney, près de Genève, entrecoupée de fulgurants retours dans les centres du pouvoir (Paris, Versailles, Berlin). Ses principes littéraires sont ceux du Néoclassicisme et ses principes politiques essentiellement libéraux. Dans ses « Lettres philosophiques », inspirées par son séjour en Angleterre, il attaque les abus de l´Ancien Régime au nom de la tolérance et la liberté. Dans les pages de « Candide, ou l´optimisme », Voltaire tourne en dérision, avec une telle intelligence et habilité, et une si éclatante moquerie, les institutions civiles et ecclésiastiques, que le résultat ne peut être autre qu´une persécution acharnée et un immense prestige.

Traité sur la tolérance: Voltaire (French Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Voltariana Ou Eloges Amphigouriques, Part 1-2 (1749) (French Edition)

VOLTAIRE

Humor & Satire

Kessinger Publishing

Kessinger Publishing, LLC

Micromegas

THE CONVERSATION BETWEEN MICROMEGAS AND THE INHABITANT OF SATURN 
His excellency having laid himself down, and the secretary approached his nose: "It must be confessed," said Micromegas, "that nature is full of variety." "Yes," replied the Saturnian, "nature is like a parterre, whose flowers --" "Pshaw!" cried the other, "a truce with your parterres." "It is," resumed the secretary, "like an assembly of fair and brown women, whose dresses--" "What a plague have I to do with your brunettes?" said our traveler. "Then it is like a gallery of pictures, the strokes of which--" "Not at all," answered Micromegas, "I tell you once for all, nature is like nature, and comparisons are odious."

Aegypan

Mahomet

This powerful work was read by Voltaire to Frederick of Prussia in 1740, to the king's great delight. The play was withdrawn after the fourth representation, under pressure of Church authorities who professed to see in it a bloody satire against the Christian religion. Almost three hundred years later critics are still unclear if this play is a rebuke of Islam or of Christianity or, perhaps, both. Wilder Publications is a green publisher. All of our books are printed to order. This reduces waste and helps us keep prices low while greatly reducing our impact on the environment.

Arouet, Fran Ois-Marie

Dramas & Plays

Wilder_Publications

Seventeen Plays by Voltaire

Included in this omnibus edition are seventeen of Voltaire's most important plays including Brutus, Socrates, Alzire, Orestes, Catiline, Sémiramis, Pandora, The Scotch Woman, Nanine, The Prude, Mérope, Olympia, The Orphan of China, Mahomet, Amelia, Œdipus, and Mariamne. During his life time Voltaire was far and away the most successful French playwright, these are the plays that cemented his popularity and made him a household name during his own lifetime. Wilder Publications is a green publisher. All of our books are printed to order. This reduces waste and helps us keep prices low while greatly reducing our impact on the environment.

La Doncella de Orleáns: Poema en XXI cantos (Literatura) (Spanish Edition)

REY LEAR, S.L.

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