Digital Enlightenment Studies

Oxford University Voltaire

Our Publications

The Voltaire Foundation publishes in hardback and online the correspondences of key French thinkers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Who We Are

As a research department, our mission is to disseminate world-leading research into the Enlightenment, and to bring the debates of Voltaire and his contemporaries to the widest possible audience.

Voltaire Lab

With the Voltaire Lab, we have established a new virtual space for cutting-edge research and experimentation on Voltaire.

Research Community

As a research department, we do not work in isolation. In Oxford and internationally, we have the great fortune to collaborate with a variety of 18th-century and Digital Humanities institutions and projects.

Development

The VF is expanding its activities and is seeking supporters who will help us become a transformational digital and interdisciplinary hub for eighteenth-century scholarship – the Voltaire Foundation for Enlightenment Studies.

About Voltaire’s writings

It has been estimated that, in a career which stretched over sixty years, Voltaire’s extant writings ran to some fifteen million words and covered just about every topic and genre conceivable in his day.