Voltaire in Holland (1736-1745)

• Date de parution : 02/05/2011
• Editeur : Peeters
• EAN : 9789042923539
• Série : (-)
• Support : Papier

• Nombre de pages : 596
• Collection : LA REPUBLIQUE DES LETTRES
• Genre : Anglais
• Thème : Sciences humaines en langue anglaise
• Prix littéraire(s) : (-)

This book portrays Voltaire as he was perceived by readers of gazettes and literary journals published in Holland. Among them the literary critic Prosper Marchand, who was allergic to the many factual errors in Voltaire's works, and Henri Du Sauzet, publisher of the Bibliothèque françoise. We... Voir plus

This book portrays Voltaire as he was perceived by readers of gazettes and literary journals published in Holland. Among them the literary critic Prosper Marchand, who was allergic to the many factual errors in Voltaire's works, and Henri Du Sauzet, publisher of the Bibliothèque françoise. We provide a day-by-day chronology of Voltaire's visits to Holland, and illustrate these with a large number of as yet unpublished comments. Thus Henri Du Sauzet tells a correspondent about his problems with Voltaire over Histoire du siècle de Louis XIV, while at the same time his Amsterdam colleague Etienne Ledet clashes with Voltaire over Eléments de la philosophie de Newton and OEuvres de M. de Voltaire. We include an unknown version of Voltaire's Sur un usage très utile établi en Hollande, and discuss at some length his Sommaire des droits de Sa Majesté le roi de Prusse sur Herstal, first printed as a pamphlet in The Hague, and published in the Leydse Courant before it appeared in the Gazette d'Amsterdam, the Gazette de Leyde and the Gazette d'Utrecht.

Kees van Strien est ancien professeur d'anglais au Vietland College.