Voltaire's British Visitors

by André-Michel Rousseau and Gavin De Beer

In Voltaire's British visitors , Sir Gavin de Beer and Andr -Michel Rousseau have collected accounts of one hundred and fifty visits by British travellers to Voltaire in Switzerland, where he spent the last years of his life on the shores of Lake Geneva. One hundred and twenty-three of these visitors have been identified, and they range from men as young as fifteen on a Grand Tour to Thomas Pitt, brother of William, and Edward Gibbon. As the Seven...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0729406946
• ISBN13: 9780729406949
• Release Date: January 1967
• Publisher: Voltaire Foundation in Association with Liver
• Length: 201 Pages