Voltaire in Exile: His Life and Works in France and Abroad (England, Holland, Belgium, Prussia, Switzerland); With Unpublished Letters of Voltaire and Mme; Du Chatelet (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Voltaire in Exile: His Life and Works in France and Abroad (England, Holland, Belgium, Prussia, Switzerland); With Unpublished Letters of Voltaire and Mme; Du Chatelet

A desire on the occasion of the centenary of Vol taire to pay a tribute to his memory, and a genuine admiration for that master mind of the eighteenth century, have prompted the author of Voltaire in Exile to the writing of these pages. The loyal feel ings of the biographer, so often apt in imparting a bias to his...