Republican Ideas by a Member of the Academy

Download or read book Republican Ideas by a Member of the Academy written by Voltaire and published by Newcomb Livraria Press. This book was released on with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new translation directly from the original French manuscript of Voltaire's 1762 Republican Ideas by a Member of the Academy. This edition also contains supplemental material on Voltaire including an afterword by the translator, a timeline of Voltaire's life and works, summaries of each of the works in his corpus, and a glossary of Philosophic Terminology used by Voltaire. This is a political essay in which he argued for the establishment of a republican form of government in France. Along with Rousseau, Voltaire's writings also helped to inspire a wave of political reform in France and laid the foundation of the revolutions of the late 17th and early 18th century.