Oxford University Voltaire
The best scholarly edition of all Voltaire
Read and explore Voltaire's works in the first ever digital scholarly edition.
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Oxford University Voltaire is a digital scholarly edition of Voltaire’s complete works, including over 2000 texts and over 15000 items of correspondence. It reproduces in digital form the 205 volume Œuvres complètes de Voltaire / Complete works of Voltaire (Oxford, Voltaire Foundation, 1968-2022). Edited by an international team of experts, it includes extensive notes, commentary and introductions to each text, as well as variant readings from all authorised editions and manuscripts produced during Voltaire’s lifetime.
Épître de l'auteur en arrivant dans sa terre près du lac de Genève, en mars 1755
To introduce this new space to explore and study Voltaire's work, we've chosen to feature a poem that Voltaire wrote in 1755 to celebrate his arrival in a new home, which he named 'Les Délices': the Épître de l'auteur en arrivant dans sa terre près du lac de Genève, en mars 1755. Although an online resource cannot boast the spectacular views and scenery of Voltaire's beautiful Swiss estate, we hope that our users will find this platform just as congenial as Voltaire found his new home in this poem.
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