Voltaire,

The famous French enlightenment thinker and writer. A champion of civil liberties and great wit. On his deathbed, Voltaire was offered the chance to renounce the devil. His alleged reply is pure Voltaire: 'Now is not the time to be making new enemies.' He had frequent troubles with the authorities and high ranking nobles. After falling out with the influential de Rohan family he was imprisoned in the Bastille. He successfully asked to be exiled to England which was accepted by the French authorities as a serious alternative punishment. He lived in Wandsworth and met everybody who was everybody.

1756 The History of the War of 1741
Not Stated: 1756

An early English edition of Voltaire's history of the 1741 war, bound in smart contemporary leather.

£550.00

Stock Code: 775R67

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