Full Description
The three plays presented in this volume and their various adjoining texts, ranging from the lengthy 'Notes' on "Le Triumvirat" to prefaces, avertissements and avis, all testify to Voltaire's continuing preoccupation with the uses and abuses of political authority, for good (as in "Charlot") and evil (as in "Le Triumvirat" and its accompanying essays, as well as, more ambiguously, in "Les Scythes").
Contents
Octave et le jeune Pompée, ou Le Triumvirat; Du gouvernement et de la divinité d'Auguste; Des conspirations contre les peuples, ou des proscriptions; Les Scythes; Charlot, ou la comtesse de Givry
