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Complete Works of Voltaire 50 - Oeuvres de 1760 (I) (French, Hardcover, Critical edition)
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Complete Works of Voltaire 50 - Oeuvres de 1760 (I) (French, Hardcover, Critical edition)
Series: Complete Works of Voltaire, 50
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This volume contains works from 1760 and showcases two sides to
Voltaire. "Le Droit du seigneur" is a comic drama featuring rakes,
illegitimate heiresses, and true love, and takes as its starting
point the abuse of power represented by the custom of jus primae
noctis. By contrast, "L'Ecossaise" and the "Anecdotes sur Freron"
are artefacts of the intellectual war between the philosophes and
the anti-philosophes. Elie Catherine Freron, the editor of the
influential "L'Annee litteraire" journal, was a formidable opponent
of Voltaire and launched stinging attacks on Enlightenment ideas.
In "L'Ecossaise", Voltaire employs the form of the sentimental
comedy to undermine Freron, who is caricatured as the character
'Frelon' - the Wasp. In the "Anecdotes sur Freron", Voltaire swats
the Wasp in a satirical salvo of caustic wit.
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