Romans -- Volume 3: Micromegas, by Voltaire
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Title: Romans -- Volume 3: Micromegas
Author: Voltaire
Translator: Peter Phalen
Release Date: September 28, 2009 [EBook #30123]
Language: English
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THE WORKS
OF
VOLTAIRE.
VOLUME XXXIII
FROM THE PRINTING HOUSE OF A. FIRMIN DIDOT,
RUE JACOB, No 24.
THE WORKS
OF
VOLTAIRE
PREFACES, CAUTIONS, NOTES, ETC.
BY M. BEUCHOT.
VOLUME XXXIII.
NOVELS. VOLUME I.
IN PARIS,
LEFÈVRE, BOOKSELLER,
RUE DE L'ÉPERON, Ko 6. WERDET ET LEQUIEN FILS,
RUE DU BATTOIR, No 20.
MDCCCXXIX.
MICROMEGAS,
PHILOSOPHICAL HISTORY.
Publisher's preface.
Voltaire's lengthy correspondences do not contain anything that might indicate the period in which Micromegas was published. The engraved title of the edition that I believe to be the original displays no date. Abbot Trublet, in his Biography of Fontenelle, does not hesitate to say that