Digital correspondence of Voltaire project
First revision of the standard paper edition, including new letters & more
- INTRODUCTION
- DOCUMENTATION
- LETTERS
Correspondance complète de Voltaire — une édition électronique /
Complete correspondance of Voltaire — a digital edition
François Marie Arouet, dit Voltaire (1694–1778), French author, essayist, philosopher, celebrity, Voltaire is perhaps the outstanding figure of the Enlightenment — icon and amanuensis to the modern world.
The Digital correspondence of Voltaire project marks the beginning of an ambitous collaboration with the Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford, publishing here exclusively the first ever revision of Theodore Besterman’s monumental edition of Voltaire’s Correspondence and related documents (1968–1977). We launch the project by honouring Paul LeClerc (scholar and librarian) on his retirement from the New York Public Library, where he served so remarkably as President & CEO.
Making full use of the opportunities of web-publication, this new edition will be supplemented by a range of associated resources including high-quality images of original manuscripts, chronologies, house-hold accounts, concordances and topic-mapping, geographical resources and associated works. We begin the project with publication of 14 previously unpublished letters, as well as new information and annotations on over 30 more letters, making significant revisions to all previous editions. We also include high-quality images of all the Voltaire letters at the New York Public Library and several from the Morgan Library and Museum.
Subscribers have full access to the results of the
Digital correspondence of Voltaire project
as they become available.