Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Voltaire's Prose
These works, the rank of which as literary productions is far inferior to-day to that which was assigned to them by the men and women of the eighteenth century, are therefore inter esting to us because they were the weapons with which he achieved the labor of his life. We study them as we study the strategy and military tactics of a Napoleon, as we study the statesmanship of a Richelieu or a Bismarck, or, better still, of an Abraham Lincoln. Here, instead of reading the man's biography in order to understand better his works, we turn to the works in order to understand better the man.
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