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Paperback Reinventing Voltaire: The Politics of Commemoration in Nineteenth-Century France Book

ISBN: 072940742X

ISBN13: 9780729407427

Reinventing Voltaire: The Politics of Commemoration in Nineteenth-Century France

How was Voltaire's legacy seen in France between 1830 and 1900? To what extent did the nineteenth century reinvent Voltaire? Viewed during these years through the distorting lens of the French Revolution, Voltaire was vilified and venerated in roughly equal measure: as an icon of republican anticlericalism on the one hand, and a deeply Christian reformer on the other. This wide-ranging study uses the rich sources of the Parisian periodical and daily...

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