Voltaire as Correspondent by Jean SEZNEC
Fellow of All Souls, and Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature in the University of Oxford
Recently Dr. Theodore Besterman published the 104th, and last. volume of his edition of the correspondence of Voltaire. Professor Seznec considers what effect this tremerdous achievement has had on our picture of Voltaire as the centre of the Enlightenment's communicationsnetwork.Andhe argues that far from being an archaic figure in the world of modern specialisation. Voltaire is 5till an admirable exemplar of graceful and civilised common sense. What we need today is a * gigantic Voltaire.'
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