James Hanrahan, Voltaireand the parlementsof 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'srepresentation throughout Voltaire's writings, and calls into question the dominanthistoriography of extremes that pits Voltaire ‘defender of the oppressed'against ‘self-interested' magistrates. He presents a relationship that was muchmore nuanced, from which the philosophe emerges as ahighly pragmatic figure whose political philosophy was inseparable from hisbusiness or humanitarian interests.
Sommaire :
Introduction
Part I. From admiration tooutrage
1. Voltaire and the parlements, 1715-1750
2. Voltaire and the parlements, 1750-1762
Part II. Judging thejudges
3. Frenchmen before themagistrates of France
4. Magistrates before thetribunal of history
Part III. Voltaire's politics: absolutism, but not absolutely
5. Voltaire's politics after the Histoire du parlement deParis
6. Voltaire and the Maupeourevolution
Conclusion: a politics of action
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