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The Friends of Voltaire is an anecdotal biography of 18th-century French Enlightenment writer Voltaire written by English author Evelyn Beatrice Hall under the pseudonym S. G. Tallentyre. It was published in 1906.[1] In 1907, it was published in Great Britain under the author's own name by G. P. Putnam's Sons.[2] The classic work about Voltaire was still being printed nearly 100 years later in 2003.[3]

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