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French Interest in Quakers Before Voltaire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Edith Philips
Edith Philips*
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Goucher College
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In spite of Lanson's well known edition of Voltaire's Lettres Philosophiques, students have shown comparatively little curiosity concerning the implications which might be drawn from the number of those letters which deal with Quakers and from the fact that those four letters are the first of the series. Lanson, without making any claim to completeness, has suggested possible sources other than personal contact for Voltaire's knowledge of Quakers, and Morize has called attention to an account of them given by Sorbière. Nevertheless the actual extent of French interest in Quakers, and the number of publications concerning them were far greater than either of the above commentaries would suggest.

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Research Article
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PMLA , Volume 45 , Issue 1: American Bibliography for 1929 , March 1930 , pp. 238 - 255
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1930

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References

1 Morize: Samuel Sorbière (1610-1670) et son “Voyage en Angleterre” (1664) in R.H.L. 1907. vol. XIV p. 231.

2 Sorbière : Relation d'un voyage en Angleterre. Paris. 1664. 1666 and 1669.

3 La Muse Historique, Dec. 23, 1656, ed. Ch. Livet. Paris 1857-1891.

4 Misson, Mémoires et observations faites par un voyageur en Angleterre, La Haye. 1698.

5 Amst. 1669-1672; Amst. 1671-1672 (1 vol.) Paris. 1671. Amst. 1688; 1692; 1698.

6 Guy Miège, L'Etat présent de l' Angleterre. Amst.. 1702; 1708; 1723; La Haye 1728.

7 H. Misson, Mémoires et observations faites par un voyageur en Angelterre. LaHaye. 1698.

8 See above. (Ross, however, does not accuse the Quakers of Atheism.)

9 The last sentence is taken verbatim from Ross, op. cit.

10 Le Pour et le Contre. 1733. No. X. p. 218.

11 G. Chinard. Les Réfugiés Huguenots en Amérique. Paris. 1925. p. xx.

12 The following editions of Jovet appeared in Paris : 1676. 2v. in 12; 1680. 3v. in 12; 1686. 3v. in 12; 1697. 3v. in 12; 1710. 4v. in 12.

13 Avertissements aux protestants sur les lettres du ministre Jurieu. Paris 1689.

14 Cité par Bossuet des Principes de la Vérité avec les Thèses Theologiques. Rotterdam, 1675.

15 Croesius. Historia Quakeriana. Amst. 1696.