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"What would Voltaire say?": Voltaire’s exchange value in the correspondence of Catherine the Great
- Abstract:
- Christiane Mervaud has demonstrated how, in his correspondence, Voltaire reduced Catherine the Great to an ‘emblème’ and a ‘signe de ralliement’: in his letters she became a symbol of the protection of the arts and the struggle for religious toleration, and, via this transformation, her name became a publicity tool for promoting the cause of the philosophes. But the complementary question has not yet been asked: what was Voltaire’s emblematic value in Catherine the Great’s correspondence?
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- La Société des études Voltairiennes
- Journal:
- Revue Voltaire More from this journal
- Volume:
- 16
- Pages:
- 241-252
- Publication date:
- 2018-06-17
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-03-04
- ISSN:
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2275-2676
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English
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- Copyright date:
- 2018
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