Complete Works of Voltaire 29A: Precis du siecle de Louis XV (I): Introduction, ch.1-16

Part of the complete works of the French philosopher, historian and social reformer, Voltaire. This is an account of Voltaire's own world, in which the historian becomes a shrewd eye-witness, writing with vivacity of what he has seen and heard. For students and scholars of the 18th-century Enlightenment.