Writings of 1776-1777

Writings of 1776-1777
By:"Voltaire"
Published on 2010-11-09 by

After his final attack on Shakespeare, the Lettre de Monsieur de Voltaire à Messieurs de Académie française, Voltaire composed Irène as a demonstration of the supremacy of French theatre. Whereas he had previously failed to win Marie Antoinettes favour with his divertissement LHôte et hôtesse, Irène finally granted him a triumphant return to Paris shortly before his death. During the years 1776-1777, Voltaire continued his fight against serfdom in the Jura region through his Supplique à M. Turgot, the Lettre du révérend père Polycarpe and the Lettre d un bénédictin de Franche-Comté, while his Dialogue de Maxime de Madaure, entre Sophronime et Adélos reveals a preoccupation with mortality at the close of his life.

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