Walter biography

Quotes about the author Voltaire - a French philosopher, historian, writer, publicist. One of the key figures of the Enlightenment. He spent many years in exile due to his views and beliefs. The real name is Francois-Marie Arue. Born on November 21 in Paris, in a prosperous family of an official. The youngest of five children. Francois was very young when his mother died.

He became close to the godfather, who was distinguished by free -dummy and had a great influence on the boy. Voltaire's life path in the year entered the college of Louis Le-Grand, the Jesuit Parisian School, where he received a classic education. At this time, he began to be interested in writing skills. The young satirist was delighted with their ideals of liberal society, thoughts about the freedom of religion and free trade.

In the year, Voltaire was exiled to Tulle for mockery of the Duke of Orleans. A year later he returned to the capital, but was taken under arrest and imprisoned - he was accused of writing slanderous verses. In the year, Voltaire will again be in the fortress, this time because of a dispute with Chevalier de Rogan. Soon he was released and exiled to England. Three years later, he was again in his homeland.

In the year, his “philosophical letters”, who outraged the church and the French government, saw the light in the year. The writer was forced to escape from Paris and spent the next fifteen years in Lorraine.

From here he moved to the Netherlands, escaping from accusations of mockery of religion. In the year he was appointed a court poet and historiographer, but brought to himself the anger of the Marquis de Pompadur and tore with the yard. Voltaires were constantly suspected of political unreliability, so he accepts the invitation of the Prussian king Frederick II in him and moves to Berlin.

But here he could not find a common language with the authorities. The writer could not return to Paris, he had to move to Geneva. By this moment, he had already had an impressive state and bought the Benne estate in France, where he lived almost until his death. Voltaire conducted active correspondence with many prominent figures of the era. He was considered friends to be European monarchs and Catherine the Great.

In the year, the writer returned to Paris, where he was met as a national hero. Despite the advanced age, Voltaire continues to write actively, according to his plays, he is made, he works on the academic dictionary. Voltaire died on May 30, he was buried in a village cathedral. Voltaire wrote the main works of poems and plays, historical and philosophical works. The first classic epics were the “Heniad” and “Orleans Virgin”, one of the earliest plays is the processing of the tragedy of Sophocles “Oedipus”.

To this day, the most commonly mentioned and published remains the story “Candide, or Optimism”. Many works were filmed. In the year, researcher Theodor North Stermin founded a museum dedicated to the writer in Geneva, as well as the Voltaire Foundation, which is now based in Oxford. The literary heritage of Francois-Marie Arue has more than two hundred volumes.

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