Dictionnaire philosophique
Publié pour la première fois en 1764, l'ouvrage connaît immédiatement un sort funeste, car il déplaît aux fanatiques religieux : d'abord interdit puis brûlé dans de nombreux pays, il est finalement mis à l'index par le Vatican. On comprend dès lors le courage qu'il fallut à Voltaire pour l'écrire puis le publier, même de manière anonyme : reconnaître en être l'auteur, c'était signer son arrêt de mort.
Cet ebook est réalisé à partir de l'édition de 1877 publiée par Garnier en quatre tomes.
Voltaire
François-Marie Arouet (French: ; 21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778), known by his pen name Voltaire (, US also ; French: ), was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher (philosophe), satirist, and historian. Famous for his wit and his criticism of Christianity (especially of the Catholic Church) and of slavery, Voltaire was an advocate of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and separation of church and state.
Voltaire was a versatile and prolific writer, producing works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, histories, and even scientific expositions. He wrote more than 20,000 letters and 2,000 books and pamphlets. Voltaire was one of the first authors to become renowned and commercially successful internationally. He was an outspoken advocate of civil liberties and was at constant risk from the strict censorship laws of the Catholic French monarchy. His polemics witheringly satirized intolerance and religious dogma, as well as the French institutions of his day. His best-known work and magnum opus, Candide, is a novella that comments on, criticizes, and ridicules many events, thinkers and philosophies of his time, most notably Gottfried Leibniz and his belief that our world is of necessity the "best of all possible worlds".
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