Frederick the Great's "The Works of the Philosopher of Sans Souci." Volume I

Frederick the Great's "The Works of the Philosopher of Sans Souci." Volume I Oeuvres Du Philosophe De Sans Souci. Tome Premiér Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786 Author Le Sueur, Blaise Nicolas, 1716-1783 Artist Schmidt, G. F. (Georg Friedrich), 1712-1775 Artist Voltaire, 1694-1778 Editor text text xx monographic Berlin, Germany Printing Press of King Frederick II 1752 fre 1 online resource. The three-volume edition of selected works by Frederick II, King of Prussia, printed in 1749-50, was the first product of Frederick's private printing press at the palace of Sanssouci. The king entitled the edition, the contents of which were entirely in French, Oeuvres du Philosophe de Sans Souci (The works of the philosopher of Sans Souci). (Sanssouci was the name of the summer palace that Frederick had built just outside Berlin in 1745-47.) Volume one contained the burlesque heroic epic Le Palladion, which was written as a carnival jest and was to remain an absolute secret because of its harsh satire directed at Frederick's contemporaries and at the Christian religion; only 24 copies were produced. After Voltaire (1694-1778) arrived in Potsdam in July 1750, he was given the second and third volumes of the Oeuvres from 1750 for editing (although not the first volume with Le Palladion). Frederick then had a new first volume of the Oeuvres printed at the Sanssouci press. It contains the eight odes and the 16 poems known as épîtres, or missives, from the second volume of 1750, edited and proofread by Voltaire. It also includes additional odes (one of them addressed to Voltaire) and épîtres as well as the first printing of Frederick's "L'art de la guerre," a poem in six cantos, together with etchings by Georg Friedrich Schmidt designed according to drafts by Blaise Nicolas Le Sueur. Title devised, in English, by Library staff. Original resource extent: 416 pages. Original resource at: Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. Content in French. Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions. 1752 French literature French poetry Poetry Voltaire, 1694-1778 Wit and humor Germany Berlin Berlin 840 841 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.wdl/wdl.3003 2021666128 DLC 210226 20250607104717.2 21924222 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.8 using MARC21slim2MODS3-8_XSLT1-0.xsl (Revision 1.172 20230208) eng