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Welcome to the Voltaire Foundation's blog. We are a world leader for eighteenth-century scholarship and a research department at the University of Oxford. We publish the definitive edition of the Complete Works of Voltaire (Œuvres complètes de Voltaire), as well as SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century), the foremost series devoted to Enlightenment studies, and the correspondences of several key French thinkers.
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Voltaire’s curation of the ‘cabinet de physique’ at Cirey and of his image as a scientist
23 November 2023
Charlotte White spent six weeks at the Voltaire Foundation this past summer thanks to the UNIQ+ programme and is now working towards an MA in Medical History and Humanities at the...
The luck of receiving Voltaire’s archive
16 November 2023
This post originally appeared on The Tribune, published by the SPT, a student society of McGill University, on 24 October 2023. The Jacqueline Lambert-David collection of Voltaire...
The Letters of the Duchesse d’Elbeuf: hostile witness to the French Revolution
9 November 2023
The Letters of the Duchesse d’Elbeuf: hostile witness to the French Revolution by Colin Jones, Simon Macdonald, and Alex Fairfax-Cholmeley has recently published in the Oxford University...
The beginning of a friendship: the Ottoman Empire and Prussia
2 November 2023
Irena Fliter’s Ottomans in Eighteenth-Century Prussia: Delegates to Diplomats has recently published in the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series. This book examines...