Œuvres de 1753-1757 (II)
Mélanges de 1756
Author: Voltaire
Volume: 45B
Series: Œuvres complètes de Voltaire
Volume Editors: Michel Mervaud, Jean Dagen, et al.
Publication Date: 2010
Pages: 514
ISBN: 978-0-7294-0945-2
Price: £110
About
The new edition of Voltaire’s works produced by Cramer in 1756 in close collaboration with the author contained, in volumes 4 and 5, Mélanges de littérature, d’histoire et de philosophie. Alongside significant works previously published were a number of new texts, some related, some standing alone, that reflect not only Voltaire’s perennial interests, but a new way of presenting them in short articles or ‘petits chapitres’, as he referred to them. These new texts form the major part of this volume 45B of the Œuvres complètes de Voltaire.
Table of contents
Des langues (édition critique par Michel Mervaud)
Jusqu’à quel point on doit tromper le peuple (édition critique par Jean Dagen)
Les Deux Consolés (édition critique par Michel Cambou)
[Timon] Sur le paradoxe que les sciences ont nui aux mœurs (critical edition by Mark Waddicor)
Des Juifs (édition critique par Marie-Hélène Cotoni)
Du siècle de Constantin; De Dioclétien; De Constantin; De Julien (éditions critiques par Laurence Macé)
Lettre sur le Dante (critical edition by David Williams)
De la chimère du souverain bien (édition critique par Christophe Paillard)
De la population d’Amérique (édition critique par Jacqueline Hellegouarc’h)
Histoire des voyages de Scarmentado (critical edition by Philip Stewart)
Des génies; De l’astrologie; De la magie; Des possédés (éditions critiques par Nicholas Cronk, Basil Guy, Jacqueline Hellegouarc’h et Michel Mervaud)
D’Ovide, De Socrate (éditions critiques par Jean Mayer)
Dialogues entre Lucrèce et Posidonius (édition critique par Jean Mayer)
[Notice autobiographique] (édition critique par Jacqueline Hellegouarc’h et Jessica Goodman)
Préface des éditeurs; Lettre de M. de Voltaire aux éditeurs de la première édition de Genève (critical editions by David Williams)
Appendice: Deux prospectus des Cramer (présentés par Nicholas Cronk)
Vers au roi de Prusse (1756) (supplement to the edition published in OCV, vol.45A, by David Adams)
Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne (addenda to the edition published in OCV, vol.45A, by David Adams)
Reviews
French Studies
Readers are undoubtedly familiar with the Voltaire Foundation’s ever-expanding critical edition of Voltaire’s collected works, which has changed the landscape of eighteenth-century scholarship. […] Coming on the heels of Voltaire’s two great historical works, Le Siècle de Louis XIV (1751) and L’Histoire universelle (1753), this collection might give the impression of a writer capitalizing on his success by recycling unused work. Nicholas Cronk, however, makes a compelling case for considering the mélanges as a bona fide genre in which Voltaire exercised his taste for ‘de petits chapitres’, short variations on themes that enabled maximum flexibility in tone, approach, and subject matter. […] ‘De petits chapitres’ these may be but, as this volume convincingly shows, Voltaire’s brevity — his conspicuous silence on certain issues as much as his polemics — set the agenda of international debate for much of the eighteenth century.
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