Author: VOLTAIRE, François-Marie Arouet
Title: Histoire de Charles XII, roi de Suède. Nouvelle édition soigneusement corrigée par P.N. Rabaudy.
Description: Londres: de l'Imprimerie de W. Flint, pour J. Mawman; T. Boosey; & Dulau, 1803. 12mo. xxii, 296, [22]p. Last leaf of Table misbound between page xxii and page 1. Mottled calf, worn at joints and corners; gold-tooled spine; lacking title label. Patch of discolouration in inner margin of title-page. **** In this work, first published in 1731 and his first attempt at history, Voltaire inaugurated the modern technique of historical investigation. He records with substantial accuracy the life of Charles XII and the vicissitudes of his struggle with Peter the Great. The book's philosophic conclusion is that a career of conquest is inferior to that of a pacific and beneficent monarch. Ownership inscription "S. Peene, Augst 14th 1810" on front free endpaper. This edition not found in Bengesco.

Keywords: French, Sweden, Charles XII


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