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The Voltaire Foundation is a research department of the University of Oxford, founded by Theodore Besterman in the 1970s. It publishes the definitive edition of the Complete Works of Voltaire (Œuvres complètes de Voltaire), as well as Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment (previously SVEC, Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century), a monograph series devoted to the eighteenth century, and the correspondences (letters) of several key French thinkers.[1] Directed by Professor Nicholas Cronk, it forms part of Oxford's Humanities Division.[2]

  1. ^ "Voltaire Foundation". Voltaire Foundation. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
  2. ^ "Voltaire Foundation Staff Page". www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 16 November 2023.

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eighteenth centuries: nine predecessors of the Encyclopédie. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation. ISBN 978-0-7294-0256-9. OCLC 10645788. Kafker, Frank A., ed. (1994)...

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VA: A. Works. p. 130. "Voltaire Foundation: Reviews of the new critical edition of Voltaire's Siècle de Louis XIV". www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 18...

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111–121. Ballstadt, Kurt P.A. Diderot: Natural Philosopher. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2008. Blom, Philipp (2010). The Wicked Company. New York: Basic...

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Leddy and Avi S. Lifschitz, Epicurus in the Enlightenment. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2009. Masi, Francesca; Morel, Pierre-Marie; Verde, Francesco (2023)...

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study of the contributors to the Encyclopédie. Vol. 7. Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation at the Talyor Institution. pp. 16–17. Ce qui nous convient, nous...

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biography. Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation. ISBN 978-0-7294-0438-9. Glass, Bentley (1959). "Maupertuis, pioneer...

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notes marginales de Voltaire 1-9, et Notes et écrits marginaux conservés hors de la Bibliothèque nationale de Russie". Voltaire Foundation. Retrieved 24 March...

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Nine Predecessors of the Encyclopédie, ed. Frank A. Kafker (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1981), p.110. Harris, J. (July 1704). "An Account of a Book: Lexicon...

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