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Voltaire

François-Marie Arouet (.

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Notable work
Candide The Maid of Orleans The Age of Louis XIV
Education
Collège Louis-le-Grand
Born
François-Marie Arouet (1694-11-21)21 November 1694 Paris, France
Died
30 May 1778(1778-05-30) (aged 83) Paris, France
Era
Age of Enlightenment
Genres
Fiction (novella · short story · tragedy · poetry) · Non-fiction (polemic

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Voltaire

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related to External links · 45
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related to Exile in England · 38
Voltaire → April, Bastille, British, Calais, Covent Garden, Durham Court, Edward Higginson, England, English, Everard Fawkener, Fearing, French, French Enlightenment, From December, Good Quaker, Guy Auguste, Huguenot, In, In England, John Adam Street
related to Prussia · 36
Voltaire → Abraham Hirschel, After, Akakia, Berlin Academy, Charlottenburg Palace, Diatribe, Doctor Akakia, Frederick, French, Great, He, However, January, Jewish, Johann Samuel König, Life, Louis XV, March, Marquise, Maupertuis
related to Geneva and Ferney · 34
Voltaire → Adam Smith, Berlin, Calvinist Genevans, Candide, Christian, Colmar, Dictionnaire, Early, Edward Gibbon, Ferney, Ferney-Voltaire, Franco-Swiss, French, Geneva, Giacomo Casanova, He, In, James Boswell, January, Leibniz's
related to Appreciation and influence · 33
Voltaire → According, Bentham, Byron, Charles XII, Diderot, Euripides, For, Frederick, Frenchman, Godwin, Goethe, Great, Hades, He, In England, Macaulay, Mahomet, Mary Wollstonecraft, May, Napoleon
related to Early fiction · 33
Voltaire → After Voltaire's, April, Artémire, At Brussels, August, Comédie-Française, Denied, Dutch, February, France, He, Heavily, Henry IV, In, It, La Henriade, Louis XV, Macedonia, March, Mariamne
related to Early life and education · 32
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related to Prose · 23
Voltaire → Almost, Bible, Candide, Commentaire, Corneille, Forty Pieces, God, In, Jonathan Swift, L'Homme, Leibniz's, Life, Many, Micromégas, Molière, Notices, Pangloss's, Plato's Dream, Silver, Siècles
related to history · 22
Voltaire → Although, Bossuet's Discourse, Charles XII, Christian, Customs, Essay, Europe, France, Guillaume, He, History, Influenced, Louis XIV, Middle Ages, Middle Eastern, Nations, Spirit, Syon, The Age, The Essay
related to Islam · 22
Voltaire → Alcoran, Boulainvilliers, But, De, Drawing, Frederick, Gabriel, George Sale, Great, Henri, Herbelot's Bibliothèque, In, Islam, Mahomet, Mohammed, Muhammad, On, Oriental Library, Quran, René Pomeau

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VoltaireBornFrançois-Marie Arouet (1694-11-21)21 November 1694 Paris, France1.00infobox
VoltaireDied30 May 1778(1778-05-30) (aged 83) Paris, France1.00infobox
VoltaireEducationCollège Louis-le-Grand1.00infobox
VoltaireEraAge of Enlightenment1.00infobox
VoltaireGenresFiction (novella1.00infobox
VoltaireGenresshort story1.00infobox
VoltaireGenrestragedy1.00infobox
VoltaireGenrespoetry)1.00infobox
VoltaireGenresNon-fiction (polemic1.00infobox
VoltaireGenrestreatise1.00infobox
VoltaireGenresessay1.00infobox
VoltaireGenresarticle1.00infobox
VoltaireGenreshistoriography1.00infobox
VoltaireGenresliterary criticism1.00infobox
VoltaireGenresepistle1.00infobox
VoltaireGenrescorrespondence)1.00infobox
VoltaireLiterary movementClassicism1.00infobox
VoltaireMain interestsPolitical philosophy, literature, historiography, biblical criticism1.00infobox
VoltaireNotable ideasPhilosophy of history, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, separation of church and state1.00infobox
VoltaireNotable workCandide The Maid of Orleans The Age of Louis XIV1.00infobox
VoltaireOccupationsWriter, philosopher, historian1.00infobox
VoltairePartner(s)Émilie du Châtelet (1733–1749) Marie Louise Mignot (1744–1778)1.00infobox
VoltaireRegionWestern philosophy French philosophy1.00infobox
VoltaireResting placePanthéon, Paris1.00infobox
VoltaireSchoolLumières1.00infobox
VoltaireSchoolPhilosophes1.00infobox
VoltaireSchoolDeism1.00infobox
VoltaireSchoolClassical liberalism1.00infobox
VoltaireSubjectsReligious intolerance, freedom1.00infobox
VoltaireYears activeFrom 17151.00infobox

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