The Friends of Voltaire, written by Evelyn Beatrice Hall under the pseudonym S. G. Tallentyre, was published in 1906.The book is in the form of an anecdotal biography telling the stories of ten men whose lives fell very closely together. The ten men were true contemporaries and aside from their friendship with Voltaire they were more or less closely associated with one another. Each of the ten is characterized by giving him an identifying label: d'Alembert the Thinker, Diderot the Talker, Galiani the Wit, Vauvenargues the ...
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The Friends of Voltaire, written by Evelyn Beatrice Hall under the pseudonym S. G. Tallentyre, was published in 1906.The book is in the form of an anecdotal biography telling the stories of ten men whose lives fell very closely together. The ten men were true contemporaries and aside from their friendship with Voltaire they were more or less closely associated with one another. Each of the ten is characterized by giving him an identifying label: d'Alembert the Thinker, Diderot the Talker, Galiani the Wit, Vauvenargues the Aphorist, d'Holbach the Host, Grimm the Journalist, Helv???tius the Contradiction, Turgot the Statesman, Beaumarchais the Playwright, and Condorcet the Aristocrat In 1907 it was published in Great Britain under the author's own name by G. P. Putnam's Sons. This classic work about Voltaire was still being printed nearly 100 years later in 2003.
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Good++, No Dust Jacket. 8VO, 303 pgs., B/W Illus, Hardcover. Hardcover. Green leather spine and tips with marblized boards. Green leather spine has sunfaded to brown on spine. Title in gold on spine. Marbelized boards are sunfaded to almost white. Rear board is scuffed. Corners and edges are lightlly frayed. Frontispiece is tissue-guarded. Previous owners bookplate on first tinted paste-down. Another owners name on tinted endpaper. Illustrated with vintage engravings. Nice tight binding.
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