International audienceIn La Henriade, Voltaire offers a poetic and captivating account of the Wars of Religion, from Saint-Barthélemy's night to the conquest of Paris by Henry IV. Alternating between accounts of battles and political analysis, philosophical reflection and a vision of history, he tackles the great debates that would drive Enlightenment thinking, such as the place of religion in society, tolerance, the figure of the sovereign and the progress of the arts. A decade after the death of Louis XIV, he lays the first stone of the myth of the "Grand Siècle", sketching the emblems of the Nation, as they will be constituted in modern France. A remarkable illustration of poetry at the beginning of the 18th century, La Henriade was a hu...
International audienceIn La Henriade, Voltaire offers a poetic and captivating account of the wars o...
International audienceLa Henriade brought elements of reflection, in the conception of fiction, and ...
International audienceLa Henriade brought elements of reflection, in the conception of fiction, and ...
International audienceIn La Henriade, Voltaire offers a poetic and captivating account of the Wars o...
International audienceIn La Henriade, Voltaire offers a poetic and captivating account of the Wars o...
International audienceIn La Henriade, Voltaire offers a poetic and captivating account of the Wars o...
International audienceIn La Henriade, Voltaire offers a poetic and captivating account of the Wars o...
International audienceIn La Henriade, Voltaire offers a poetic and captivating account of the Wars o...
International audienceIn La Henriade, Voltaire offers a poetic and captivating account of the wars o...
International audienceIn La Henriade, Voltaire offers a poetic and captivating account of the wars o...
International audienceIn La Henriade, Voltaire offers a poetic and captivating account of the wars o...
International audienceIn La Henriade, Voltaire offers a poetic and captivating account of the wars o...
International audienceIn La Henriade, Voltaire offers a poetic and captivating account of the wars o...
International audienceIn La Henriade, Voltaire offers a poetic and captivating account of the wars o...
International audienceIn La Henriade, Voltaire offers a poetic and captivating account of the wars o...
International audienceIn La Henriade, Voltaire offers a poetic and captivating account of the wars o...
International audienceLa Henriade brought elements of reflection, in the conception of fiction, and ...
International audienceLa Henriade brought elements of reflection, in the conception of fiction, and ...
International audienceIn La Henriade, Voltaire offers a poetic and captivating account of the Wars o...
International audienceIn La Henriade, Voltaire offers a poetic and captivating account of the Wars o...
International audienceIn La Henriade, Voltaire offers a poetic and captivating account of the Wars o...
International audienceIn La Henriade, Voltaire offers a poetic and captivating account of the Wars o...
International audienceIn La Henriade, Voltaire offers a poetic and captivating account of the Wars o...
International audienceIn La Henriade, Voltaire offers a poetic and captivating account of the wars o...
International audienceIn La Henriade, Voltaire offers a poetic and captivating account of the wars o...
International audienceIn La Henriade, Voltaire offers a poetic and captivating account of the wars o...
International audienceIn La Henriade, Voltaire offers a poetic and captivating account of the wars o...
International audienceIn La Henriade, Voltaire offers a poetic and captivating account of the wars o...
International audienceIn La Henriade, Voltaire offers a poetic and captivating account of the wars o...
International audienceIn La Henriade, Voltaire offers a poetic and captivating account of the wars o...
International audienceIn La Henriade, Voltaire offers a poetic and captivating account of the wars o...
International audienceLa Henriade brought elements of reflection, in the conception of fiction, and ...
International audienceLa Henriade brought elements of reflection, in the conception of fiction, and ...