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Voltaire

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Vol·taire  (vl-târ, vl-, vôl-tr) Pen name of François Marie Arouet. 1694-1778.
French philosopher and writer whose works epitomize the Age of Enlightenment, often attacking injustice and intolerance. He wrote Candide (1759) and the Philosophical Dictionary (1764).
Voltaire [vɒlˈtɛə vəʊl- (French) vɔltɛr]
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(Biographies / Voltaire (1694-1778) M, French, WRITING: writer) pseudonym of François Marie Arouet. 1694-1778, French writer, whose outspoken belief in religious, political, and social liberty made him the embodiment of the 18th-century Enlightenment. His major works include Lettres philosophiques (1734) and the satire Candide (1759). He also wrote plays, such as Zaïre (1732), poems, and scientific studies. He suffered several periods of banishment for his radical views
Voltairean , Voltairian adj & n
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Noun1.VoltaireVoltaire - French writer who was the embodiment of 18th century Enlightenment (1694-1778)
Arouet, Francois-Marie Arouet


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Henry Fielding, of the graceful and fantastic Monsieur Crebillon the younger, whom our immortal poet Gray so much admired, and of the universal Monsieur de Voltaire.
Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace View in context
"Had there been no Bagration, it would have been necessary to invent him," said the wit Shinshin, parodying the words of Voltaire.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
Quaint enough, but certainly no instance of anybody's wit, is the account of how a French translation of a play of Vanbrugh--not architect of Blenheim only, but accomplished in many other ways--appeared at the Odeon, in 1862, with all fitting raptures, as a posthumous work of Voltaire recently discovered.
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