Our Publications

The Voltaire Foundation publishes in hardback and online the correspondences of key French thinkers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Who We Are

As a research department, our mission is to disseminate world-leading research into the Enlightenment, and to bring the debates of Voltaire and his contemporaries to the widest possible audience.

Voltaire Lab

With the Voltaire Lab, we have established a new virtual space for cutting-edge research and experimentation on Voltaire.

Research Community

As a research department, we do not work in isolation. In Oxford and internationally, we have the great fortune to collaborate with a variety of 18th-century and Digital Humanities institutions and projects.

Development

The VF is expanding its activities and is seeking supporters who will help us become a transformational digital and interdisciplinary hub for eighteenth-century scholarship – the Voltaire Foundation for Enlightenment Studies.

About Voltaire’s writings

It has been estimated that, in a career which stretched over sixty years, Voltaire’s extant writings ran to some fifteen million words and covered just about every topic and genre conceivable in his day.

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Latest News

Read the very latest Voltaire Foundation news and blog posts.

Further work on English pamphlets that coopt ‘a Persian’ for political polemics

7th October 2021

Candide revealed – a Voltairean oddity

30th September 2021

From Cyclopaedia to Encyclopédie: experiments in machine translation and sequence alignment

23rd September 2021
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Events

Besterman Lecture 2021: Sophia Rosenfeld on ‘How the Enlightenment understood truth — and why that matters.’

18/11/2021, 5:15 pm

Royal Academy of Belgium celebrates the completion of the Œuvres complètes de Voltaire

08/11/2021 - 09/11/2021

INVENTIONS OF ENLIGHTENMENT

25/10/2021, 1:00 pm - 6:00 pm

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