Title : A Summer with Voltaire - Jacques-Pierre Amette - book
Summary :
Despite the years, the carriages, the kisses, the bows, the eager servants, this July day was so stormy at the Château de Ferney that it enveloped everything in a misty air and drowsiness.
Summer 1761: While in residence at Ferney, Voltaire receives two ravishing Italian actresses who have come to rehearse Le Fanatisme ou Mahomet, a play written twenty years earlier and highly criticized at the time. After the rehearsals, the warm nights lead to games, debauchery, and burning confidences. Among the guests is Count Fleckenstein, a Prussian officer sent by Frederick II to negotiate a treaty that would put an end to the Seven Years' War. Meanwhile, not far away, Rousseau triumphs with La Nouvelle Héloïse, which condemns this infamous entertainment: the theater...
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EAN: 9782253128373
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