25 letters found
- 538 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Tuesday, 3 or Wednesday, 4 November 1885.
- in note 1:
Diderot and Voltaire published their views in fictitious exchanges of letters, among them their influ...
- in translation:
With him it’s as it is with Voltaire himself; if one reads a letter from these fellows, preferably ...
- 539 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Saturday, 7 November 1885.
- in note 5:
...the ‘witty’ painter is on pp. 343-344, and the ‘Voltaire-like’ reference is on pp. 340, 350.
- in translation:
It’s a splendid book. La Tour witty and Voltaire-like.
- 568 Vincent van Gogh and Andries Bonger to Theo van Gogh. Paris, on or about Wednesday, 18 August 1886.
- in note 3:
...quoted from the ‘philosopher’ Pangloss in Voltaire’s Candide (1759), where they occur repeatedl...
- 574 To Willemien van Gogh. Paris, late October 1887.
- in note 4:
See for Voltaire’s Candide: letter 568, n. 3.
- in translation:
...d writers, Henri Rochefort among today’s, where one can find that — Voltaire in Candide.Voltaire
- 579 To Willemien van Gogh. Arles, on or about Friday, 24 February 1888.
- in note 2:
See for Voltaire’s Candide: letter 568, n. 3. Van Gogh is not quoting literally here; it may be tha...
- in translation:
... by finding out what sort of harm that wretch Voltaire has done — and you’ll certainly find this ...
- 603 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Friday, 4 May 1888.
- in note 9:
The philosopher Pangloss is a character in Voltaire’s Candide; see letter 568, n. 3.
- 637 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 8 or Monday, 9 July 1888.
- in note 9:
See for this quotation from Voltaire’s Candide: letter 568, n. 3.
- 638 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 9 or Tuesday, 10 July 1888.
- in note 16:
The philosopher Pangloss is a character in Voltaire’s Candide; see letter 568, n. 3.
- 656 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 6 August 1888.
- in note 1:
See letter 568, n. 3, for this quotation from Voltaire’s Candide.
- 657 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 8 August 1888.
- in note 16:
Voltaire’s coffee-drinking must have been legendary: in an early-nineteenth-century illustrated adv...
- in translation:
Really glorious sunshine, in which Voltaire dried himself off while drinking his coffee.
You can’t help feeling Zola and Voltaire everywhere. It’s so full of life! In the style of Jan St...
- 673 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 3 September 1888.
- in note 9:
See letter 568, n. 3, for Voltaire’s Candide.
- 683 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 18 September 1888.
- in note 33:
Cf. for this view the following passage in Voltaire’s Candide: ‘Let’s work without thinking, sa...
- 699 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 8 October 1888.
- in note 1:
...an allusion to the ‘good thief’ on the Cross beside Christ (Robert, with reference to Voltaire).
- 701 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 10 or Thursday, 11 October 1888.
- in note 5:
See letter 568, n. 3, for this allusion to Voltaire’s Candide.
- 730 To Paul Gauguin. Arles, Friday, 4 January 1889.
- in note 1:
For this quotation from Voltaire’s Candide, see letter 568, n. 3.
- 732 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 7 January 1889.
- in translation:
...I can’t help but think of a certain country Voltaire speaks of — and without even counting the si...
- 743 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 28 January 1889.
- in note 19:
For this quotation from Voltaire’s Candide, see letter 568, n. 3.
- 760 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 21 April 1889.
- in note 7:
For the philosopher Pangloss from Voltaire’s Candide, see letter 568, n. 3.
- 764 To Willemien van Gogh. Arles, between about Sunday, 28 April and Thursday, 2 May 1889.
- in note 7:
For the philosopher Pangloss from Voltaire’s Candide, see letter 568, n. 3.
- in translation:
...know the reasonings of good père Pangloss in Voltaire’s Candide, nor Flaubert’s Bouvard et Pécu...
- 765 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 30 April 1889.
- in note 5:
For the philosopher Pangloss from Voltaire’s Candide, see letter 568, n. 3.
- in note 18:
For this quotation from Voltaire’s Candide, see letter 568, 3.
- 768 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Friday, 3 May 1889.
- in note 7:
The philosopher Pangloss is a character in Voltaire’s Candide. Van Gogh is alluding here to Panglos...
- 772 To Theo van Gogh and Jo van Gogh-Bonger. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Thursday, 9 May 1889.
- in note 8:
For this quotation from Voltaire’s Candide, see letter 568, n. 3.
- 783 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Tuesday, 25 June 1889.
- in note 7:
With regard to Voltaire’s Candide, see letter 568, n. 3. Here Van Gogh quotes from Voltaire’s Zad...
- in translation:
I’ve re-read Voltaire’s Zadig ou la destinée with much pleasure. It’s like Candide. There, at ...
- 785 To Willemien van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Tuesday, 2 July 1889.
- in note 12:
An allusion to the end of Voltaire’s Candide. Regarding this novel, see letter 568, n. 3.
- 790 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Sunday, 14 or Monday, 15 July 1889.
- in translation:
Besides, it’s reassuring that Voltaire, for example, left us free to believe not absolutely all of ...
1 essay item found
- Van Gogh as a letter-writer / A new edition
- in letter_writer_1:
...(www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk/correspondence). Voltaire, finally, wrote around 20,000 letters to more ...
1 other item found
- Chronology
- in 1889:
... #Repeatedly refers to Flaubert’s Bouvard et Pécuchet and Voltaire’s Candide (e.g. 669, 764).
June-July
#Re-reads Voltaire’s Zadig ou la destinée and reads Shakespeare’s history plays and M...
- in 1886:
About 18 August
#Cites from Voltaire’s Candide, which he had probably just finished reading (5...
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Dated between:
29 September 1872 and 31 July 1890
Person:
François Marie Arouet (Voltaire) (1694-1778) French writer
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