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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Contents
Dedication
Maps
Note to the Reader
Prologue
1 Youth: 1694–1713
2 Comédie Française: 1714–1718
3 Money, and the shortage of it: 1718–1722
4 Friends and lovers: 1722–1723
5 La Henriade: 1723–1726
6 From the court to the Bastille: 1725–1726
7 In England: 1726–1728
8 Return to France: 1729–1733
9 Lettres Philosophiques: 1731–1733
10 Voltaire and Emilie: 1733–1734
11 Emilie comes and goes: 1734–1735
12 The intellectual love-nest: 1735–1738
13 Ordeal of Mme de Graffigny: 1738–1739
14 Émilie’s court case: 1739–1740
15 Mission to Potsdam: 1741–1743
16 Voltaire at Court again: 1744–1746
17 End of a relationship: 1746–1747
18 Death of Emilie: 1748–1749
19 Voltaire in Prussia: 1750–1753
20 Humiliation at Frankfurt: 1750–1753
21 Sentence of exile: 1754–1755
22 Encyclopédie: 1753–1759
23 Ferney: 1758–1761
24 Mlle Corneille: 1760–1763
25 Campaigns for justice: 1761–1765
26 Damilaville: 1765
27 Beccaria: 1765–1766
28 Chevalier de La Barre: 1765–1768
29 Geneva troubles: 1765–1768
30 The quarrel with Mme Denis: 1767–1769
31 Watch-making at Ferney: 1770–1776
32 Last campaigns: 1770–1778
33 Triumph and death: 1778
Voltaire’s most important correspondents
Select bibliography
List of illustrations
Image Gallery
Notes
Index
Copyright Page
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