Note 238 — Chapter VI
Reading edition
The dates of the publication of Voltaire’s historical works are these:—Charles XII., 1731; Siécle de Louis XIV., 1752 (a portion of it in 1739); Annales de l’Empire, 1753-54; Essai sur les Mœurs, 1757 (surreptitiously in 1754); Histoire de Russie, Pt. I. in 1759, Pt. II. in 1763; Precis du Siecle de Louis XV., 1768; Histoire du Parlement de Paris, 1769.