Pour saluer «Paméla». Une œuvre inconnue de Voltaire

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André Magnan, « Pour saluer «Paméla». Une œuvre inconnue de Voltaire », Dix-Huitième Siècle, ID : 10.3406/dhs.1983.1454


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André Magnan : An unknown work by Voltaire. The forty or so letters to Madame Denis at present classified among Voltaire's correspondence for the years 1750-3 are in fact «forgeries ». Material, historical and formal criticism all leads to the same conclusion, namely that they are a biased, romanticised and literary re-writing of a true exchange of letters that is now lost. It is in fact an epistolary novel. It is an unfortunate mystification which has distorted the whole biographical tradition of Voltaire's stay in Prussia ; we must consider it as a new work by Voltaire — both «anti-Frederick » and «Ur-Memoirs ».

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