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François-Marie Arouet (21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778), better known by the pen name Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, essayist, Freemason, eist and philosopher known for his wit, philosophical sport, and defense of civil liberties, including freedom of religion. He was an outspoken supporter of social reform despite strict censorship laws and harsh penalties for those who broke them. A satirical polemicist, he frequently made use of his works to criticize Catholic Church dogma and the French institutions of his day.

Trivia about voltaire

  • This "Candide" author wrote the libretti for several Rameau operas, including "La Princesse de Navarre"
  • He wrote in "Candide", "If this the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?"
  • For speaking too "Candide"ly, he did time in the Bastille, but later lived in a mansion on Ile St-Louis
  • (Jon of the Clue Crew reports from Alfama in Lisbon, Portugal.) Built on bedrock, the Alfama area survived the 1755 earthquake that killed 60,000 people & inspired this author's critique of optimistic thinking in "Candide"
  • The Danton was sunk, but the French battleship named for this "Candide" author survived the war
  • This "Candide" author said, "The secret of being a bore is to tell everything"
  • This great writer of the Enlightenment was known as "The Plato of the 18th Centuty"
  • 1770:"If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent him"
  • In 1778, during his last trip to Paris, this "Candide" author sat for a bust sculpted by Houdon
  • This "Candide" writer portrayed the grandeur of the Sun King in his "Age Of Louis XIV"
  • One of the contributors to Diderot's encyclopedia was this "Candide" man
  • In 1770 this witty Frenchman wrote, "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him"
  • This satirist's 1734 "Lettres Anglaises" extols England & by implication criticizes France
  • Let's be candid: Madame du Chatelet was the long-time lover of this "Candide" author
  • This "Candide" author helped popularize the saying, "The perfect is the enemy of the good"
  • Under this pen name, Francois-Marie Arouet wrote "Micromegas", a tale of a 120,000-foot-tall being
  • Francois Marie Arouet chose this best of all possible pseudonyms
  • A biographer claimed he said, "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
  • Wordsworth called this author's "Candide" a "dull product of a scoffer's pen"
  • In a 1756 essay this sarcastic Frenchman denounced religion, but still showed his own belief in God
  • In 1776 sculptor Jean Baptiste Pigalle created a nude statue of this author
  • (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Russia.) Catherine the Great so admired this great French thinker with whom she corresponded that she commissioned this statue of him
  • The 1781 life-size marble statue of this French writer is one of Jean Antoine Houdon's most famous works
  • This "Candide" author's 1752 work "Micromegas" was an early story of visitors from other planets
  • To speak "Candide"-ly, in 1717 this author was imprisoned in the Bastille
  • Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne is famed for his busts of Montesquieu, Mme. de Pompadour & this "Candide" author
  • For a time, this French author & philosopher lived at the court of Prussian king Frederick the Great
  • Smile, Benedict XIV, a great pope to whom this French antireligious enlightenment writer even dedicated a play
  • Francois Marie Arouet wrote under this pen name
  • This satirical novelist got serious with "Zaire", a 1732 tragedy about a Christian raised by Turks

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