Reviews of the Complete Works of Voltaire series

Revue Voltaire, 2010

‘L’édition des œuvres complètes de Voltaire publiée par la Voltaire Foundation est une entreprise monumentale, exigeante et admirable’ (Antony McKenna, Revue Voltaire 10, 2010, p.331).

Arts and Humanities Research Council, 2008

‘The Complete Works of Voltaire are unquestionably one of the most prestigious publications in humanities scholarship in the UK. The excellence of the published volumes is recognised worldwide.’

‘The publication rate of the Complete Works has increased impressively over recent years, while in no way diminishing their quality. Their publication will be eagerly awaited by many scholars from diverse disciplines.’

‘The Oxford-based Complete Works of Voltaire is one of the most important ongoing British-based publishing projects in the field of French literary studies.’

‘The Complete Works of Voltaire, a well established and well respected series that is a standard purchase for any university library where there is an interest in eighteenth-century French studies.’

Union Académique Internationale Committee session, 2007

‘This is a highly important project which has unfailingly met the highest standards in scholarship and production. It has achieved a widely acknowledged status as the definitive edition of Voltaire’s works, and thoroughly deserves the Union Académique Internationale’s support and congratulations.’

Times Literary Supplement, 2002

‘The latest volumes of the Oxford Voltaire Foundation’s ongoing edition of Voltaire’s Œuvres complètes exhibit all the by now familiar virtues of the enterprise: the highest editorial standards and a quality of material presentation (paper, type, binding in particular) rarely to be met with today. The arrangement of the works in chronological order not only displays the range and diversity of Voltaire’s interests at any one time, but also the developing context in which he wrote and the lengths to which he was prepared to go to maintain his position as the presiding genius of the French Enlightenment’ (Denys Potts, Times Literary Supplement, 13 December 2002).

Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2001

‘The Voltaire who is emerging ever more clearly from modern critical study stands not as an isolated, heroic figure who rises above his century, but as an eminently influential thinker and writer who dominated the literary life of the era and who sustained a constant, creative dialogue with the society of his time and with the world around him’ (John Iverson, ‘A more complete Voltaire’, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 34, Number 3, Spring 2001, p.458).