Letters on England

Voltaire left France, reached London in August, 1726, went as guest to the house of a rich merchant at Wandsworth, and remained three years in this country, from the age of thirty-two to the age of thirty-five. He was here when George I. died, and George II. became king. He published here his Henriade. He wrote here his “History of Charles XII.” He read “Gulliver’s Travels” as a new book, and might have been present at the first night of The Beggar’s Opera. He was here whet Sir Isaac Newton died.<br/>In 1731 he published at Rouen the Lettres sur les Anglais, which appeared in England in 1733.<br/><br/>- Taken from "Letters On England" written by Voltaire