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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Grateful Thanks to a Charitable Man (1750)

Extract from a Decree by…the Inquisition (1750)

In Defense of Milord Bolingbroke (1752)

Dialogue between a Brahmin and a Jesuit (1756)

Dialogues between Lucretius and Posidonius (1756)

Reflections for Fools (1760)

Letter from Charles Gouju to His Brothers (1761)

The Sermon of Rabbi Akib (1761)

Extract from the London Gazette (1762)

Prayer to God (from Treatise on Tolerance) (1763)

Catechism of the Honest Man (1763)

Omer de Fleury, Having Entered, Have Said (1763)

Letter from Mr. Clocpicre to Mr. Eratou (1764)

Adapt to the Times (1764)

Wives, Submit to Your Husbands (1765)

Republican Ideas by a Member of a Corps (1765)

Dialogue between a Doubter and a Venerator (1766)

Letters to His Highness, the Prince of **** on Rabelais (1767)

Letter I: On François Rabelais

Letter II: On the Predecessors of Rabelais, etc.

Letter III: On Vanini

Letter IV: On the English Authors

Letter V: On Swift

Letter VI: On the Germans

Letter VII: On the French

Letter VIII: On the Encyclopedia

Letter IX: On the Jews

Letter X: On Spinoza

Dinner at Count de Boulainvilliers’ (1767)

The Emperor of China and Friar Chuckles (1768)

APPENDIX

An Anonymous Character Sketch of Voltaire (1734 or 1735)

Oliver Goldsmith on Voltaire

Condorcet's Account of Voltaire's Battle

Madame Suard's Visit to Ferney in 1775

The Count de Ségur on Voltaire's Return to Paris in 1778

La Correspondance Littéraire, Philosophique, et Critique on Voltaire's Death (June 1778)

Frederick the Great's Eulogy of Voltaire

Edgar Quinet on The Exterminating Angel (1844)

Robert G. Ingersoll on The Great Infidels

Glossary

Notes

Selected Bibliography

About the Translator and Editor