Voltaire\u27s Convincement

The aim of this essay is to trace the evolution of Voltaire\u27s perspective toward Quakers and Quakerism during the course of his life. The record begins when in 1726 he was forced into exile and chose to go to England. In the course of his three-year stay there, he wrote letters to his friend-letters which were published in 1733 in English under the title \u27Letters Concerning the English Nation\u27 and in French with the title \u27Lettres Philosophiques\u27. Four of the 25 letters are devoted to Quakerism. We endeavour to depict, through his writing, Voltaire\u27s changing attitude toward Quakerism from one of mild disdain�� through ambivalence and fmally to outright admiration. This unfolding begins with a summary of his letters on Quakers and proceeds to a description of French attitudes toward Quakerism in the early 18th century. The essay culminates in an account of miscellaneous reactions to Voltaire\u27s letters and eventually to what we feel was his \u27convincement\u27, as this is reflected in his later writings

Influence of England on Voltaire

Thesis (M.A.)--Boston Universit

Voltaire: his ideas about literature and criticism

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An Age of Crisis

Originally published in 1959. This book examines the French Enlightenment by analyzing critical thought in eighteenth-centruy France. It examines the philosophes' views on evil, free will and determinism, and human nature. This is an interesting group to look at, according to Crocker, because French Enlightenment thinkers straddled two vastly different time periods

« Et la religion le remplit de fureur... » : Les déterminations idéologiques, polémiques et politiques, du Mahomet de Voltaire.

Il s'agira, en examinant sa tragédie de 1742 avec laquelle débute l'intérêt explicite de Voltaire envers le Prophète de l'Islam, de retracer ce qu'avec Mahomet ou le fanatisme, Voltaire, un Voltaire critique d'abord de sa société et futur auteur du Traité sur la Tolérance, met véritablement en scène, ou plus précisément, en arrière-scène pour les besoins idéologiques de sa dénonciation. On commentera, chemin faisant, les aspects polémiques de ces attaques contre la superstition et le fanatisme religieux ainsi que les conséquences politiques qu'elles ont eues sur son propre contexte historique pour finir par poser, en conclusion, la question de leur actualité, devant la résurgence contemporaine des intégrismes quels qu'ils soient, et de la mort et de la violence qui les accompagnent inéluctablement.I intend to bring out the ideological determinations of Voltaire's Mahomet ou le fanatisme and of his attacks on religion. I will analyze his polemical stand against fanaticism and superstition in respect to the historical and societal context as well as the political consequences of this denunciation by the future author of the Traité sur la Tolérance. In conclusion the problem of the actuality of the Voltairian struggle will be examined in respect to the contemporary resurgences of reli- gious fundamentalist views

Voltaire Et La Question Du Luxe

Subject was treated in a paper read at the meeting of the South-Central Modern Language Association in November 196