Complete Works of Voltaire 28B - Oeuvres de 1742-1745 (II) (Hardcover, Critical edition)

This volume completes the writings of 1742 to 1745, beginning with a group of short polemical texts from 1742-1743 largely on religious and social matters. From 1744 Voltaire, based principally in Paris or Versailles, followed closely the progress of the War of the Austrian Succession. This volume contains his best known text of 1745, the "Poeme de Fontenoy", written in his capacity as historiographe du roi, together with three diplomatic notes drafted at the request of d'Argenson and a collection of shorter verse relating to the war.