"What would Voltaire say?": Voltaire’s exchange value in the correspondence of Catherine the Great
Christiane Mervaud has demonstrated how, in his correspondence, Voltaire reduced Catherine the Great to an ‘emblème’ and a ‘signe de ralliement’: in his letters she became a symbol of the protection of the arts and the struggle for religious toleration, and, via this transformation, her name became...
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La Société des études Voltairiennes
2018
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