Oxford University Voltaire
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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.
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Works
The complete works of Voltaire, including full scholarly introductions and annotation.
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ExpandedLetters
The complete correspondence of Voltaire, including over 20 000 letters written by and to him.
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NewMarginalia
Notes, marks and other signs of reading in books in Voltaire's personal library.
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Iconography
Visual depictions of Voltaire. Paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, satirical images, contemporary objects.
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Library of Voltaire
Voltaire’s personal library of around 7000 volumes, including those with annotations and other marks of reading.
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Catalogue of Manuscripts
A union catalogue of thousands of manuscripts relating to Voltaire across international collections and repositories.
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A letter from Voltaire to the French ambassador to St Petersburg (27 June 1746)
This newly discovered letter was added to Voltaire’s correspondence for the September 2026 update. Voltaire is writing to Louis d’Usson de Bonnac, comte d’Alion, France’s minister plenipotentiary in St Petersburg between 1742 and 1748. He thanks d’Alion for helping to secure his admission to the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences and asks him to forward a letter to the Academy’s secretary, Gerhard Friedrich Müller. The letter offers a new glimpse into Voltaire’s growing connections with Russia.
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