VOLTAIRE

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Who is Voltaire?• Voltaire was a

French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher.

• Anagram of "AROVET LI "

• Initial letters of "le jeune" ("the younger").

Voltaire’s birth• He was born in Paris one 21st of November 1694.

• He was educated by the Jesuits at the Collège Louis-le-Grand.• He started to work as a an assistant to a notary.

• His father sent him to study law and later to the Netherlands.

Voltaire’s death• Throughout his

life he lived in London, Cirey, Geneva and Femey.

• He died on 30th May 1778.

Novels• His best-known

novels are:• The Age of Louis XIV

(1751), • Essay on the

Customs and the Spirit of the Nations (1756).

Epic poems• Voltaire wrote two

book-long epic poems in French, the Henriade, and later, The Maid of Orleans.

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