Title : I write to act - Life of Voltaire - Max Gallo - book

Summary :

Voltaire's statue and glory hide the man of flesh. It is this man that Max Gallo seeks to revive in this Life of Voltaire. From his birth to his death, at eighty-four years old, a decade before the Revolution, we see the emergence of a man determined to forge his destiny day after day, word after word. Dozens of tragedies, essays, tales, pamphlets, historical studies, and thousands of letters: this work, this life, reflects the entire 18th century, that of the Enlightenment, of the philosophical party, of the fight for the abolition of torture... But there is more. Max Gallo shows us other facets of the character: his ambition, his greed. Ruthless and contemptuous, grumpy, yet capable of passion for the "sublime Émilie." A man of contradictions, placing freedom above all else, Voltaire, dazzling with life, our necessary contemporary.

• EAN: 9782253128946
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