Voltaire, Histoire de la guerre de 1741 [History of the war of 1741]

Janet Godden (University of Oxford); James Hanrahan (Trinity College Dublin)

Ed. by Síofra Pierse, University College Dublin, Jenny Mander, University of Cambridge
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.5.2.04: French Writing and Culture: Eighteenth-Century and the Enlightenment, 1700-1800.
Vol. editors: Edward Forman (University of Bristol), Jenny Mander (University of Cambridge), Síofra Pierse (University College Dublin), Tim Unwin (University of Bristol), David Williams (University of Sheffield)

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First circulation or publication 1755

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France (Country of Origin; Publication/ performance)

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Voltaire’s history of the War of the Austrian Succession, 1741-1748 (known as St George’s War in the US) was not published during his lifetime, nor was it included in any of the major editions of his works in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It first appeared in print in 1971 (Maurens, 1971) and has recently been edited from his surviving manuscripts (Voltaire,

OCV

, vol. 29C) showing extensive additions and rewordings, which reveal much about his methods of working. Apart from its significance as one of Voltaire’s historical writings, the

Histoire de la guerre de 1741

has the additional interest of being a complex, under-explored work by a major writer. It is closely related to Voltaire’s

Précis du siècle de Louis XV

[

Summary of the Age of Louis XV

]. The

Histoire de

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Citation: Godden, Janet, James Hanrahan. "Histoire de la guerre de 1741". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 18 January 2022 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=40689, accessed 24 November 2024.]

Voltaire, Histoire de la guerre de 1741 [History of the war of 1741]

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