1694–1778 · French Enlightenment writer and philosopher
Voltaire
Voltaire was a French Enlightenment writer and philosopher, famous across Europe in his own lifetime for his wit and his campaigns against intolerance.
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About Voltaire
Voltaire was a French Enlightenment writer and philosopher, famous across Europe in his own lifetime for his wit and his campaigns against intolerance. Candide, his satirical tale of a naive optimist battered by the world, remains his most widely read work.
- Born
- 1694
- Died
- 1778
Voltaire in a few words
It would be impossible to relate all the original remarks of Voltaire, which, when he made them, were attacked as dangerous paradoxes, and are now valued as sober truths.
Hardly a sentence is there which did not come forth alive from Voltaire’s own mind, or which was said because some one else had said it before.
stamped out the fires of fanaticism and ignorance in Europe by ridicule.
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