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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.
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."
References
Annals of the Empire Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA