The Friends of Voltaire

The Friends of Voltaire

The Friends of Voltaire written by Evelyn Beatrice Hall under the pseudonym S.G. Tallentyre was published in 1906, cite book | last =S. G. Tallentyre | first = | authorlink =S.G. Tallentyre | title =The Friends of Voltaire | publisher =Richard West | date =1906 | location = | pages = | url =http://books.google.com/books?id=jOq2AAAACAAJ&dq=%22The+Friends+of+Voltaire%22+Tallentyre&source=gbs_book_other_versions_r&cad=1_0 | doi = | id = ISBN 0827423772 ] In 1907 it was published in Great Britain under her own name by Putnam's Sons.cite book | last =Hall | first =Evelyn Beatrice | authorlink =Evelyn Beatrice Hall | coauthors = | title =The Friends of Voltaire | publisher =Putnam's | date =1907 | location = | pages = | url =http://books.google.com/books?id=qQf2GAAACAAJ&dq=%22The+Friends+of+Voltaire%22 | doi = | id = ] This classic work about Voltaire was still being printed nearly 100 years later in 2003. cite book | last = S. G. Tallentyre | first = | authorlink =S.G. Tallentyre | coauthors = | title =The Friends of Voltaire | publisher =University Press of the Pacific | date =2003 | location = | pages =332 pages | url =http://books.google.com/books?id=0OEGAAAACAAJ&dq=%22The+Friends+of+Voltaire%22+Tallentyre | doi = | id = ISBN 1410210200 ]

The book is in the form of anecdotal biography telling the stories of ten men whose lives fell very closely together. The ten men were true contemporaries and aside from their friendship with Voltaire they were more or less closely associated with one another. Each of the ten is characterized by giving them an identifying label as follows D Alembert the Thinker, Diderot the Talker, Galiani the Wit, Vauvenargues the Aphorist, D Holbach the Host, Grimm the Journalist, Helvétius the Contradiction, Turgot the Statesman, Beaumarchais the Playwright, and Condorcet the Aristocrat cite book | last =Piece by Josiay Renick Smith; edited by Francis Fisher Browne | title =The Dial | publisher =Jansen, McClurg | date =1907 | location =Original from the University of Michigan | pages =Page 58 to 60 | url =http://books.google.com/books?id=vtI9AAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA58&dq=%22The+Friends+of+Voltaire%22+Tallentyre#PRA1-PA59,M1 | doi = | id = ]

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