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42. Voltaire A character sketch of Voltaire Voltaire (16941778) Voltaire was the pen name of Francois Marie Arouet, a French author and philosopher. http://www.basic-bible-knowledge.com/voltaire.html

Subscribe To This Site Voltaire (1694-1778) Voltaire was the pen name of Francois Marie Arouet, a French author and philosopher. He was the son of a lawyer and was was born in Paris. He received an excellent education at a Jesuit school. He showed little inclination to study law, and his schooling ended at the age of 16. He soon joined a group of sophisticated aristocrats who had little reverence for anything except wit, pleasure, and literary talent. Paris society sought Voltaire's company because of his cleverness, his remarkable ability to write verses, and his gift for making people laugh. In 1717, he was imprisoned in the Bastille for satirical verses that he may or may not have written ridiculing the government. Forced to leave France from 1726 to 1729, he lived in England, for him a land of political and religious freedom. There, he met the writers Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift and was attracted to the ideas of the philosopher John Locke and the scientist Sir Isaac Newton. He returned to France in 1729, and published several works. From 1734 to 1749, he lived in her chateau at Cirey in Lorraine. During this period, he wrote several plays, an essay on metaphysics, two works on Sir Isaac Newton, and some poetry. He also wrote two notable philosophical tales. One of them, Zadig (1747), explores the problem of human destiny. The other, Micromegas, was started at Cirey and was published in 1752. In it, he used giant visitors from a distant star and from the planet Saturn to discuss the relative insignificance of human pretensions in answering religious questions. In this work, he also encouraged the use of human reason for the development of science.

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44. Candide; Or, The Optimist, Voltaire,; 16941778. . Candide; or, The optimist, Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library The entire work (620 KB) Table of Contents for this work http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/VolCan2.html

Voltaire,; 1694-1778. . Candide; or, The optimist, Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library The entire work 620 KB Table of Contents for this work All on-line databases Etext Center Homepage Header ... Chapter 1 CANDIDE by Voltaire CHAPTER 1 How Candide Was Brought Up in a Magnificent Castle and How He Was Driven Thence Chapter 2 What Befell Candide among the Bulgarians Chapter 3 How Candide Escaped from the Bulgarians and What Befell Him Afterwards Chapter 4 How Candide Found His Old Master Pangloss Again and What Happened to them Chapter 5 A Tempest, a Shipwreck, an Earthquake, and What Else Befell Dr. Pangloss, Candide, and James, the Anabaptist Chapter 6 How the Portuguese Made a Superb Auto-De-Fe to Prevent Any Future Earthquakes, and How Candide Underwent Public Flagellation Chapter 7 How the Old Woman Took Care Of Candide, and How He Found the Object of His Love Chapter 8 Cunegund's Story Chapter 9 What Happened to Cunegund, Candide, the Grand Inquisitor, and the Jew Chapter 10 In What Distress Candide, Cunegund, and the Old Woman Arrive at Cadiz, and Of Their Embarkation

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