French Interest in Quakers Before Voltaire

Autor: Edith Philips
Rok vydání: 1930
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Zdroj: PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America. 45:238-255
ISSN: 1938-1530
0030-8129
DOI: 10.2307/457738
Popis: In spite of Lanson's well known edition of Voltaire's Lettres Philosophiques, students have shown comparatively little curiosity concerning the implications which might be drawn from the number of those letters which deal with Quakers and from the fact that those four letters are the first of the series. Lanson, without making any claim to completeness, has suggested possible sources other than personal contact for Voltaire's knowledge of Quakers, and Morize has called attention to an account of them given by Sorbière. Nevertheless the actual extent of French interest in Quakers, and the number of publications concerning them were far greater than either of the above commentaries would suggest.
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