Annals of the Empire

Annals of the Empire (Annales de l’Empire) is a history of Germany written by the French philosopher and author Voltaire in 1753. 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.[1]

Quotation

The Annals are the source of Voltaire's much-quoted statement about the Holy Roman Empire:

This agglomeration which was called, and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire is in no respect either holy, Roman or an empire.[2]

References
  1. Aldridge, A. Owen (1975). Voltaire and the Century of Light. New Jersey: Princeton University Press. p. 213.
  2. Ayer, A.J. (1986). Voltaire. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. p. 96. ISBN 0297788809.


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