The making of a name
A life of Voltaire
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23211804 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Geoffrey Turnovsky (University of Oxford, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Pages | 17-30 |
| Publication date | 2009-02-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | The Cambridge Companion to Voltaire (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/ccol9780521849739.002 |
| OpenAlex | W2505809996 |
| ISBN | 9780521849739 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
Voltaire's eighteenth-century biographer Theophile Duvernet records an exchange from 1713 when the future philosophe, just 19 years old and completing his studies at the prestigious Jesuit Collège Louis-le-Grand in Paris, defies his father's insistence that he find a decent profession: 'I don't want any other than that of man of letters' ('je n'en veux pas d'autre que celui d'homme de lettres'). Two key points emerge from this remark.
Art · Art history · Humanities · Key (lock) · Literature · Classics · Computer Science · Historical and Literary Studies · History · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,27 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2023 (13) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |