Collection of literary excerpts and translations including works by Voltaire, compiled by Michael Fischer c.1800

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CMV37446

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Collection of literary excerpts and translations including works by Voltaire, compiled by Michael Fischer c.1800

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Collection of literary excerpts and translations including works by Voltaire, compiled by Michael Fischer c.1800.

Detailed Summary:

The collection is divided into two parts. Part one contains excerpts from François Fénélon’s Les Aventures de Télémaque, partial translations from French and English editions of this text, and notes (especially vocabulary lists).

Part 2 includes excerpts from works by eighteenth-century French writers. The authors include: Jean-François Marmontel, Arnaud Berquin, Denis Diderot, Voltaire, Charles de Montesquieu, Antoine Condorcet, Jacques Antoine Guibert, Charles Pinot-Duclos, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

The collection was likely compiled around 1800 by Michael Fischer, a student at the time.

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424 pp. + 400 pp.

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185 x 110 mm

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c.1800

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Record created by:

Zoe Screti

Record created on:

14 July 2025