The Works of Voltaire/Volume 4
The WORKS of VOLTAIRE
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Edition de la Pacification
The Works of
V o l t a i r e
A Contemporary Version
With Notes by Tobias Smollett, Revised and Modernized
New Translation by William F. Fleming, and an
Introduction by Oliver H. G. Leigh
A Critique and Biography
by
The Rt. Hon. John Morley
Forty-three Volumes
One Hundred and Sixty-eight Designs, Comprising Reproductions
of Rare Old Engravings, Steel Plates, Photogravures,
and Curious Fac-similes
Volume IV
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Voltaire
Romances
In Three Volumes
Vol. III.
CONTENTS
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| I. André Des Touches in Siam | 5 |
| II. The Blind as Judges of Color | 13 |
| III. The Clergyman and his Soul | 15 |
| IV. A Conversation with a Chinese | 28 |
| V. Memnon the Philosopher | 33 |
| VI. Plato's Dream | 42 |
| VII. An Adventure in India | 47 |
| VIII. Bababec | 51 |
| IX. Ancient Faith and Fable | 56 |
| X. The Two Comforters | 61 |
| XI. Dialogue between Marcus Aurelius and a Recollet Friar | 64 |
| XII. Dialogue between a Brahmin and a Jesuit | 70 |
| XIII. Dialogues between Lucretius and Posidonius | 76 |
| XIV. Dialogue between a Client and his Lawyer | 95 |
| XV. Dialogue between Madame de Maintenon and Mdlle. de L'Enclos | 101 |
| XVI. Dialogue between a Savage and a Bachelor of Arts | 108 |
[In 1762 Jean Calas, a Protestant of Toulouse, was done to death by torture on the wheel on the false charge of having slain his son, a suicide. His widow and children were put to the torture to extort a confession, in utter lack of evidence. Voltaire devoted years of unremitting labor to agitating the terrible crime and raising money compensation for the victims. His pamphlets aroused substantial sympathy and protests in England and over the Continent. His efforts led to the writing of over one hundred plays, poems, and pamphlets on the case. Voltaire had the satisfaction of witnessing the triumph of his long struggle. He narrates the facts in this Treatise, which expands into a sweeping exposure of the cruelties committed in the name of religion, in all ages and countries.]
LIST OF PLATES
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Memnon and the Lady's Uncle
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The Disconsolate Woman
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The Maid of Orleans at the Stake
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Widow Calas Appeals to the King
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