McGill University receives rare collection of Voltaire manuscripts
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As you tour the collection, you will discover Voltaire's inner musings plastered on paper, such as a letter to the king of Prussia, telling him how sick he had been.
He is one of the most influential philosophers of all time: François-Marie Arouet, more widely known by his pen name, Voltaire.
A French man from the Enlightenment period two centuries ago, he lived far away and in a long-gone era.
Despite that, you can now get closer to him through a rare collection of his manuscripts, now calling McGill University home.
The head of the Voltaire Foundation, Nicholas Cronk, deems it one of the greatest collections of Voltaire books and manuscripts in the world.
As you tour the collection, you will discover Voltaire’s inner musings, plastered on paper by his own hand, such as a letter to the king of Prussia telling him how sick he had been.
Voltaire was a popular and busy man who wrote to a lot of people.
“He had 1,800 correspondents,” said Ann Marie Holland, curator of the Enlightenment collections at McGill Rare Books and Special Collections.
Some of that correspondence was with women, including Émilie du Châtelet, a French philosopher and mathematician.
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