Antique French Paper Books - De Voltaire

This curated selection of Voltaire’s theatrical works consists of 19th-century French language paper cover editions, with covers in a warm clay beige or moss green and thick, rough-cut pages. They make beautiful display pieces and conversation starters.

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Voltaire was a versatile and prolific writer, producing works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, histories, and scientific expositions. He wrote more than 20,000 letters and 2,000 books and pamphlets and was one of the first authors to become renowned and commercially successful internationally. He was an outspoken advocate of civil liberties and was at constant risk from the strict censorship laws of the Catholic French monarchy. His polemics witheringly satirized intolerance, religious dogma, and the French institutions of his day. His best-known work, Candide, is a novella which comments on, criticizes, and ridicules many events, thinkers, and philosophies of his time.