Histoire de Charles XII
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Histoire de Charles XII
（The complete works of Voltaire, 4）
Voltaire Foundation, 1996
Available at 28 libraries
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Bibliography: p. 671-677
Includes index
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"L'Histoire de Charles XII" is Voltaire's first major history, and relates the story of a warrior king, who was to Voltaire the embodiment of the 'hero', admirable for his strength in battle but at the same time tyrannical to the people he had no respect for - a king who stood in sharp contrast to the 'benevolent tyrant' Peter the Great, who had founded an empire of the Enlightenment. Voltaire's view of Charles became massively influential throughout the eighteenth century.
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