Voltaire Foundation

As a research department, the mission of Voltaire Foundation is to disseminate world-leading research into the Enlightenment, and to bring the debates of Voltaire and his contemporaries to the widest possible audience.
The Foundation have been at the heart of Enlightenment scholarship for over forty years and have an international reputation for stimulating and disseminating the most rigorous and up-to-date research into the eighteenth century. The writings of Voltaire and other eighteenth-century scholars were seminal in creating the political and social systems of today. Enlightenment thinkers were champions of rational thought, scientific enquiry, intellectual curiosity, and the separation of Church and State, all of which are more relevant now than ever.
The most remarkable work of the Voltaire Foundation is the definitive edition of the Complete Works of Voltaire (Œuvres complètes de Voltaire).