J. Hanrahan, Voltaire and the Parlements of France

James Hanrahan, Voltaire and the parlements of France, Oxford : Voltaire Foundation, Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century, 2009, xii-266 p.

• ISBN : 9780729409704
• Prix : £55 / €65 hors taxe / £85

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Hanrahan analyses the parlement's representation throughout Voltaire's writings, and calls into question the dominant historiography of extremes that pits Voltaire ‘defender of the oppressed' against ‘self-interested' magistrates. He presents a relationship that was much more nuanced, from which the philosophe emerges as a highly pragmatic figure whose political philosophy was inseparable from his business or humanitarian interests.

Sommaire :

Introduction

Part I. From admiration to outrage

1. Voltaire and the parlements, 1715-1750

2. Voltaire and the parlements, 1750-1762

Part II. Judging the judges

3. Frenchmen before the magistrates of France

4. Magistrates before the tribunal of history

Part III. Voltaire's politics: absolutism, but not absolutely

5. Voltaire's politics after the Histoire du parlement de Paris

6. Voltaire and the Maupeou revolution

Conclusion: a politics of action

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