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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,

LEFEVRE, BOOKSELLER,

RUE DE L'EPERON, 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 _Micromegas_ is directed against Fontenelle; but
does not speak of the date of publication. I have therefore retained
that given by the Kehl editions: 1752. However there is an edition
carrying the date of 1700. Is this date authentic? I would not make
this claim; far from it. I have therefore followed the Kehl editions,
in which _Micromegas_ is preceded by this warning:

This novel can be seen as an imitation of Gulliver's Travels. It
contains many allusions. The dwarf of Saturn is Mr