‘Voltaire and the Sirven affair (1762-1772)’ by John Renwick

‘Voltaire and the Sirven affair (1762-1772)’ by John Renwick

Voltaire and the Sirven affair (1762-1772) by John Renwick has recently been published in the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series. The book offers a fresh and more nuanced assessment of Voltaire’s involvement in the Sirven Affair – a miscarriage of justice that exposed religious intolerance of 18th-century France. The case concerned the Protestant Pierre-Paul Sirven, whose daughter was forcibly taken by Catholic authorities in …