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Annals of the Empire (Annales de l’Empire) is a history of Germany written by the French philosopher and author Voltaire at the request of Princess Luise Dorothea of Saxe-Meiningen in 1753. The first volume appeared in December 1753 and the second in March 1754.[1]

It is largely compiled from previous work by German historians: Voltaire described his role as like an architect, assembling a building from individual pieces of masonry.[2]


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  1. [1]
    Jean Goulemot, ′Annales de l'Empire′ in Inventaire Voltaire, ed. Jean Goulemot, André Magnan and Didier Masseau, Paris, Gallimard, 1995, p.68-69.
  2. [2]
    Aldridge, A. Owen (1975). Voltaire and the Century of Light. New Jersey: Princeton University Press. p. 213.
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