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The first "complete" edition of Voltaire's work was the so-called Kehl edition, by Beaumarchais (70 vol. in octavo or 92 vol. in duodecimo, 1784–89); a later edition is that of M. Beuchot (72 vol., 1828–40; rev. and enl., 52 vol., 1883). Publication of a complete collection of Voltaire's huge correspondence was started in 1953 under the editorship of T. Besterman and is continuing. There are English translations of Voltaire's most widely read works. Biographies and studies of Voltaire reflect continued controversy as to Voltaire's real thought and beliefs.
See biographies by G. Lanson (1906, in French; tr. by R. A. Wagoner, 1966) and H. N. Brailsford (1935, repr. 1963); studies by P. Gay (1959) and V. W. Topazio (1966); I. O. Wade, Voltaire and Madame du ChAtelet (1941, repr. 1967) and The Intellectual Development of Voltaire (1969).
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