Lives of the most eminent literary and scientific men of France, Vol. 2 (of 2)Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
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Lives of the most eminent literary and scientific men of France, Vol. 2 (of 2)
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
Authors, French -- Biography
Denis to preside in his house, 55.
55. Private theatre in his house,
55. Account of Voltaire by Le
Kain, 54. Visits Frederic at
Potsdam, 57. Is appointed chamberlain
by that monarch, 58. A
pension granted him, 59. Discontents,
61. Frederic requiring
a strict attention to his injunctions,
69. Voltaire rendered suspicious,
63. Becomes indignant,
66. Satirizes Maupertuis, 66. 67.
His amicable interview with the
monarch, 68. He repairs to Saxe
Gotha, 69. Meets madame Denis
at Frankfort, 69. Is arrested, 69.
Letter of the king, 70. 71, n. His
journey to Lyons, 71. Consults Dr.
Tronchin at Geneva on his health,
72. Purchases a house near Geneva
named "Les Delices," 71. 74.
Composes tragedies, and writes
"Candide," 74. His "Manners
and Spirit of Nations," 74. Some
dangers impend over him, 75.
Force of his satire, 75. His château
of Ferney on the borders of
France and Geneva, 76. The
"Encyclopédie," begun by Diderot
and d'Alembert, 77. Voltaire
writes some literary articles
for it, 77. Case of Jean Calas,
broken on the wheel on a false
accusation, 79. Voltaire succeeds
in proving his innocence, 81.
Exculpation and relief of the
surviving family, 82. Case of
the Sirven family, 83. Case of
the chevalier de la Barre, 84.
Heaps ridicule on Jean-Jacques
Rousseau, 88. His conversation
delightful, 90. Visited by Marmontel,
91. By the countess de
Genlis, 94. Attempted persecution
of, by the bishop of the
diocese, 99. Residence of Voltaire,
through his active spirit of
charity and improvement, a blessing
to the district, 100. He repairs
to Paris in 1788, 102. His
tragedy of "Irene," 103. Honourable
reception of the poet,
103. His profession of faith, 104.
His death, 106. His friendly and
forgiving nature, 107. Criticism
on his works, 109. His plays,
109. Was visited at Ferney by
Condorcet and d'Alembert, 176.
W.
Wagner, M., secretary of Voltaire,
II. 105.
Walpole, Horace, his fictitious letter
on the subject of Rousseau, II.
159. 161. His contempt of Rousseau,
164.
Warens, countess de, II. 117. Her
history told by Jean Jacques
Rousseau, 117-128. 137.
Winterfeld, baron de, II. 9.
Winterfeld, baroness de, formerly
Mlle. du Noyer, II. 8. 9.
Wycherly, his comedy, "The Country
Girl," imitated from Molière,
I. 117.
THE END.
TABLE,
ANALYTICAL AND CHRONOLOGICAL,
TO THE FIRST VOLUME OF
LIVES OF
EMINENT LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MEN
OF ITALY, SPAIN, AND PORTUGAL.
DANTE ALEGHIERI.
A. D.
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