Voltaire
Subtitle: a life
By: Ian Davidson
Edition: 1st Pegasus Books hardcover ed.
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 538
ISBN-13: 9781605981192
Subjects: Philosophers; Biography; French Authors
Description: Davidson tells the whole, rich story of Voltaire's life (1694-1778): his early imprisonment in the Bastille; exile in England and his mastery of English; an obsession with money, of which he made a huge amount; a scandalous love life; his infatuation with Frederick the Great; a long exile on the borders of Switzerland; his passion for watch-making; his human rights campaigns and his triumphant return to Paris to die there as celebrity extraordinaire.
Notes: Originally published: London : Profile, 2010.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [466]-471) and index.
Table of contents: title: Youth : 1694-1713; title: Comédie Française : 1714-1718; title: Money, and the shortage of it : 1718-1722; title: Friends and lovers : 1722-1723; title: La Henriade : 1723-1726; title: From the court to the Bastille : 1725-1726; title: In England : 1726-1728; title: Return to France : 1729-1733; title: Lettres philosophiques : 1731-1733; title: Voltaire and Emilie : 1733-1734; title: Émilie comes and goes : 1734-1735; title: The intellectual love-nest : 1735-1738; title: Ordeal of Mme de Graffigny : 1738-1739; title: Émilie's court case : 1739-1740; title: Mission to Potsdam : 1741-1743; title: Voltaire at court again : 1744-1746; title: End of a relationship : 1746-1747; title: Death of Émilie : 1748-1749; title: Voltaire in Prussia : 1750-1753; title: Humiliation at Frankfurt : 1750-1753; title: Sentence of exile : 1754-1755; title: Encyclopédie : 1753-1759; title: Ferney : 1758-1761; title: Mlle Corneille : 1760-1763; title: Campaigns for justice : 1761-1765; title: Damilaville : 1765; title: Beccaria : 1765-1766; title: Chevalier de La Barre : 1765-1768; title: Geneva troubles : 1765-1768; title: The quarrel with Mme Denis : 1767-1769; title: Watch-making at Ferney : 1770-1776; title: Last campaigns : 1770-1778; title: Triumph and death : 1778.