Abstract
IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN A HAPPY COINCIDENCE of literary history that Voltaire's first biographer should have been the marquis de Condorcet. The personal intimacy and mutual trust that the youngest of the philosophes enjoyed with the oldest,1 and the fact that Voltaire in effect subsequently bequeathed leadership of the progressivist party in France to Condorcet, infuse the Vie de Voltaire with a unique authority, and entitle Condorcet's portrait of Voltaire to be given particularly close attention. The Vie de Voltaire is not the longest of Condorcet's biographical pieces,2 falling short of the
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