Œuvres complètes de Voltaire (Complete Works of Voltaire) 56C: Traite sur la tolerance

Voltaire

Jan. 2000 · Liverpool University Press

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Contains Voltaire's monumental 'Traite sur la tolerance', a manifesto on religious fanaticism and superstition which calls for a new age of tolerance between religions following the injustice of the death of Jean Calas, executed for murder in Toulouse, who Voltaire believed to be an innocent victim of anti-protestant prejudice.

For students and scholars of the 18th-century Enlightenment.

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The editor John Renwick is Emeritus Professor and Honorary Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, where he taught for 26 years. He has contributed critical editions to dozens of volumes of the OEuvres completes de Voltaire and has also published widely on Marmontel.