Complete Works of Voltaire 84: Fragments divers

Part of the complete works of the French philosopher, historian and social reformer, Voltaire. This volume brings together a range of miscellaneous short texts by Voltaire, mostly undated, and principally manuscript fragments that shed light on his working methods. For students and scholars of the 18th-century Enlightenment.

Gillian Pink is Senior Research Editor at the Voltaire Foundation, where she has worked since 2007. Her scholarly interests centre on Voltaire, his working methods, writerly strategies, book history and manuscripts.

John Renwick, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the John Orr Professor of French (Edinburgh University, 1980-2006), long collaborated with the Voltaire Foundation (1970-2022), producing for the OCV numerous editions. In parallel he worked to secure a re-evaluation of Jean-François Marmontel (1723-1799) : in March 2021, he was awarded the Prix littéraire Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes de la Francophonie for his ‘pioneering rehabilitation’ of Jean-François Marmontel; in July 2021, he was awarded the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s Senior Career Medal (the Sir Walter Scott Medal) for his ‘monumental and ground-breaking’ contribution to the critical edition of the OCV’ and his key role in the ‘resurrection of the highly significant figure, Jean-François Marmontel’.