Life of Voltaire

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Ferney, 139 ; writes " History of Peter the Great, " 140 ; writes " L'Ecossaise, " and begins Jiis warfare with Christianity 141-145 ; interests himself suc- cessfully in the Galas, 142- 152 ; writes " Sermon des Cin- quantes, " 151 ; " Dictionnaire Philosophique, " 151 ; succeeds in getting his heterodox works printed at Paris and at Geneva, 152-154 ; takes up the cause of Sirven with success, 154-155 ; is frightened at the fate of La Barre, 156-158; asks Frede- rick for leave to repair to Cle
...ves, 158-159 ; why he does not avail himself of the permis- sion, 159 ; begins a correspon- dence with the Czarina Catherine II. , 160-162 ; establishes an in- dustrial colony at Ferney, 162- 165 ; finishes ' 'History of Russia under Peter the Great, " 166 ; completes " Essai sur les Moeurs " with a " Discours Preliminaire, " 166-168 ; writes dramas, "LeDe'positaire, "' 169; "Saul, " 169; writes "Ques- tions sur 1' Encyclopedic, " 170 ; " Philosophe Ignorant, " 170 ; " Profession de Foi des Th&sts, " 170 ; refutes Hoi- bach's " Systeme de la Nature" in the article "Dieu, " 171, 172 ; shows his theism in " History of Jenni, " 173-177 ; writes " Precis de 1'Histoire de Louis Quinze, " 180 ; interests himself in the fate of Lally, 179-181 ; writes " Fragments Historiques sur 1'Inde, " 181 ; adopts Mademoiselle de Vari- court, 183 ; returns to Paris, 183-185 ; produces " Irene, " 184-187 ; falls ill, 185 ; recovers, 186 ; is elected director of the French Academy, 186 ; received at the theatre with acclamations, 186-187 > l as * illness and death, 192-196 ; burial, 196-197 ; Du Bois Reymond's address upon Voltaire, 200, 201.

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