Voltaire
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Basic data
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Arouet, François Marie Real Name
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November 21, 1694 in Paris
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†May 30, 1778 in Paris
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Schriftsteller, Philosoph, Historiker
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Paris, London, Berlin
Iconography
_-001.jpg "Portrait c. 1720s, the Musée Carnavalet (Source: Wikimedia)")
![Voltaire was imprisoned in the Bastille from 16 May 1717 to 15 April 1718 in a windowless cell with ten-foot-thick walls.[19] (Source: Wikimedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bastille_1715.jpg "Voltaire was imprisoned in the Bastille from 16 May 1717 to 15 April 1718 in a windowless cell with ten-foot-thick walls.[19] (Source: Wikimedia)")
![In the frontispiece to Voltaire's book on Newton's philosophy, Émilie du Châtelet appears as Voltaire's muse, reflecting Newton's heavenly insights down to Voltaire.[59] (Source: Wikimedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Voltaire_Philosophy_of_Newton_frontispiece.jpg "In the frontispiece to Voltaire's book on Newton's philosophy, Émilie du Châtelet appears as Voltaire's muse, reflecting Newton's heavenly insights down to Voltaire.[59] (Source: Wikimedia)")
_avec_agrandissement.jpg "Pastel by Maurice Quentin de La Tour, 1735 (Source: Wikimedia)")
_-_Stierch.jpg "Voltaire, by Jean-Antoine Houdon, 1778 (National Gallery of Art) (Source: Wikimedia)")
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