Author: IAN DAVIDSON
Title: Voltaire in Exile
Description: Atlantic Books, 2005. Paperback. Pp: 342. In 1753, Voltaire - playwright, poet, philosopher, and one of the most feted figures in Europe - was forced into exile by King Louis XV, where he would remain for the last 25 years of his life. This period heralded a startling new beginning for this remarkable character during which Voltaire became a successful entrepreneur and wrote his masterpiece Candide. Cast out by the establishment, he also developed astonishingly modern ideas about human rights, borne out in his campaigns against a series of miscarriages of justice.nIan Davidson has drawn on the rich correspondence between Voltaire and his family, members of the Court at Versailles and the French intellectual elite, to paint a wonderful portrait of the man declared by Diderot to be 'the unique man of the century'. ISBN: 9781843540885. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
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Title: Voltaire in Exile
Description: Atlantic Books, 2005. Paperback. Pp: 342. In 1753, Voltaire - playwright, poet, philosopher, and one of the most feted figures in Europe - was forced into exile by King Louis XV, where he would remain for the last 25 years of his life. This period heralded a startling new beginning for this remarkable character during which Voltaire became a successful entrepreneur and wrote his masterpiece Candide. Cast out by the establishment, he also developed astonishingly modern ideas about human rights, borne out in his campaigns against a series of miscarriages of justice.nIan Davidson has drawn on the rich correspondence between Voltaire and his family, members of the Court at Versailles and the French intellectual elite, to paint a wonderful portrait of the man declared by Diderot to be 'the unique man of the century'. ISBN: 9781843540885. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9781843540885
Price: EUR 8.50 = appr. US$ 9.24 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 309168
- Book number: 309168
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