Voltaire also made friends with Jonathan Swift and greatly enjoyed his Gulliver’s Travels, which came out soon after Voltaire’s arrival in England: “He is the Rabelais of England, but a ...

Professor Cronk, the foundation's director, says the new letters, found in US libraries, cast a light on two years spent by Voltaire in England in the 1720s early in his literary career.

Among the intellectual luminaries of the time, Voltaire was the big “get,” and she got him. In 1730, just back from a prudent self-imposed exile in England, he had succeeded Fontenelle in the ...

Ian Davidson reveals Voltaire's love of England and its literature One of France's greatest writers found inspiration in the land of Shakespeare and Swift. UK News Website of the Year 2024 ...

An Oxford academic has uncovered letters by Voltaire, which reveal how much this icon of French writing profited financially and intellectually from a stay in England.

An Oxford academic has uncovered letters by Voltaire, which reveal how much this icon of French writing profited financially and intellectually from a stay in England.