Excerpt from Voltaire in Exile: His Life and Works in France and Abroad (England, Holland, Belgium, Prussia, Switzerland); With Unpublished Letters of Voltaire and Mme; Du ChateletA desire on the occasion of the centenary of Vol taire to pay a tribute to his memory, and a genuine admiration for that master mind of the eighteenth century, have prompted the author of Voltaire in Exile to the writing of these pages. The loyal feel ings of the biographer, so often apt in imparting a bias to his appreciation and sketching of traits, have not been permitted in this case, however, so to tint the lineaments of the philosopher's character that, the defects which stamped him as a man being passed or glossed over, his glowing qualities, unimpeded, might make him appear the greater here. That Vol taire possessed faults cannot be denied. Yet it re dounds to his praise that his faults were rather those of the age than of the man. As much could not be said of many men of less genius and of other ages.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.