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Voltaire

Sleepless in Sofia

by Tim Parks,

For the first and very likely the last time in my life, I’m appearing on a prime-time talk show. In Bulgaria. I’m in the capital, Sofia, for a festival, and…

Voltaire in Vichy

by Jean Guéhenno,Translated by David Ball,

By Jean Guéhenno, from Diary of the Dark Years, 1940–1944: Collaboration, Resistance, and Daily Life in Occupied Paris, out this month from Oxford University Press. Guéhenno (1890–1978) was a writer,…

New books

by John Leonard,

Bare souls. I

by Gamaliel Bradford,

Voltaire

A museum of the history of Paris. The Hôtel Carnavalet

by Theodore Child,

The Comédie Française

by Theodore Child,

Anecdotes of Voltaire among the Swiss

by Abel Stevens,

Around Lake Leman

by Ralph Keeler,

Frederick the Great. XII.–Frederick at Sans Souci

by John S.C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott,

Frederick the Great. V.–The death of Frederick William and the accession of Frederick the Second

by John S.C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott,

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