Voltaire électronique is a major new resource for scholars of French literature, the eighteenth century and the history of ideas.
Voltaire was one of the most prolific writers of his or any other age, and one of the most varied, energetic, stimulating, and influential. Poet, playwright, novelist, historian, polemicist, philosopher, scientist, he wrote in every genre on every subject. Electronic access to the full text of his literary works will enable scholars to study Voltaire's massive creative achievement more fruitfully than ever before.
Voltaire électronique is based on the Voltaire Foundation's Oeuvres complètes de Voltaire (the Oxford edition). This is the first complete critical edition to be undertaken and the first edition of Voltaire's works to appear for well over a century. Each text is edited by one or more specialists and includes an introduction, all authentic variants and full annotation.
The texts in Voltaire électronique are of two types. Those already published in the Oxford edition are included with the full critical apparatus of the printed version.
Texts yet to appear in the Oxford edition are reproduced either from a source produced under Voltaire's supervision or from the last complete edition of Voltaire's works, Oeuvres complètes de Voltaire, ed. Louis Moland, Paris, Garnier (1877-1885).
As further volumes appear in the Oxford edition, their texts will be included in Voltaire électronique in a series of regular updates. Voltaire électronique will at all times present the fullest and most reliable text of Voltaire's literary work. It is planned to include Voltaire's correspondence at a later date.
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