Letters on England
Letters on England
by Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet)
INTRODUCTION
Francois Marie Arouet, who called himself Voltaire, was the son of
Francois Arouet of Poitou, who lived in Paris, had given up his
office of notary two years before the birth of this his third son,
and obtained some years afterwards a treasurer's office in the
Chambre des Comptes. Voltaire was born in the year 1694. He lived
until within ten or eleven years of the ...