abstract:The Voltaire Foundation is a research department of the University of Oxford founded by Theodore Besterman in the 1970s. It publishes the definitive edition of the Complete Works of Voltaire (Œuvres complètes de Voltaire), as well as SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century), the foremost series devoted to Enlightenment studies, and the correspondences of several key French thinkers.