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Lettres philosophiques - Derniers écrits sur Dieu
Voltaire's letters from England, gathered here in a Flammarion edition alongside his late writings on God, read like a report from a foreign country—except the country is Anglicanism, Newtonian physics, and parliamentary commerce, and Voltaire is writing home to France with barely concealed envy. The prose is swift, irreverent, and allergic to system-building; Voltaire prefers an anecdote or a comparison to a treatise. The later religious pieces add a colder, more resigned note. Flammarion's edition presents the texts together without heavy editorial framing.For readers who take their skepticism with wit and who do not mind watching an Enlightenment optimist lose his patience.
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