High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Lettres anglaises is a series of essays written by Voltaire based on his experiences living in England (though from 1707 the country was part of the union between Wales, England and Scotland called the kingdom of Great Britain) between 1722 and 1734. It was first published under the name Lettres philosophiques in 1734. In 1778, Voltaire, who was fluent in English, rewrote and published the work as Letters on the English. However, most modern English language versions are based on a translation of the French text rather than Voltaire's English one. In some ways, the book can be compared with Democracy in America by Alexis De Tocqueville, in how it flatteringly explains a nation to itself from the perspective of an outsider, as Voltaire's depictions of aspects of English culture, society and government are often given favourable treatment in comparison to their French equivalents.

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