Voltaire and the sirven affair (1762-1772)
Auteur :
Renwick, John
Éditeur :
Liverpool University Press
ISBN :
9781836245292
Date de publication :
9 déc. 2025
Dimensions :
23,4 x 15,6 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Long overshadowed by the campaign to exonerate the memory of Calas, the Sirven affair (1762-1772) has nonetheless, but mistakenly, been bracketed with it in importance. This is the first-ever study in English to evaluate its evolution, to gauge Voltaire’s true involvement in it and, above all, to rectify misleading assumptions made in both French and English-language pronouncements.