Oxford’s Voltaire Foundation, the world leader for eighteenth-century scholarship and the American Friends of Compiegne hosted an intimate evening at the Cultural Services – Embassy of France building (formerly Payne Whitney mansion).
Miles Young, Warden of New College, Oxford, (formerly Worldwide Chairman and CEO of Ogilvy and Mather), was the host, with dinner speakers including the leading Voltaire scholar, Paul LeClerc, Professor Nicholas Cronk, Director of the Voltaire Foundation, and Caroline Weber.
Its audacious goal is to publish a definitive edition of the complete works of Voltaire, including his never before published history of Louis XV, in 200 volumes by 2020. To do this, they plan six volumes per year (2017 to 2020), and are seeking sponsors for each of the last 24 volumes. In addition the Foundation publishes Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment (previously SVEC), the foremost series devoted to Enlightenment studies with over 600 volumes to date, including the correspondences of several key French thinkers, including Rousseau, Bayle and Helvetius.
Guests included Corice Arman, Shahnaz Batmanghelidj, Joan Hardy Clark, Joyce Cowan, Michael Cunningham, Cecile David-Weill, Joanna Fisher, Marjorie and Ellery Gordon, Glenn Horowitz and Tracey Jackson, Suzanne Hoyt, Michele Gerber Klein, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Kruger, George and Shelly Lazarus, Mr. and Mrs. John Morgan, David Sadroff, and Elizabeth Stribling.
Pictured:
Dr. Paul LeClerc, Professor Nicholas Cronk, Dr. Caroline Weber, Miles Young