Voltaire AKA François Marie Arouet Born: 21-Nov-1694 Birthplace: Paris, France Died: 30-May-1778 Location of death: Chatenay, France Cause of death: unspecified Remains: Buried, Panthéon, Paris, France
Gender: Male Religion: Deist Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Author, Playwright Nationality: France Executive summary: Candide Father: Rochebrune (officer) Father: François Arouet (notary, d. Dec-1721) Mother: Marie-Marguerite Daumart (d. 1701) Sister: Marguerite Catherine Arouet Girlfriend: Gabrielle Émilie de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet-Laumont (1733-49) Girlfriend: Marie Louise Mignot (his niece) Slept with: Madame de Rupelmonde (1722) Daughter: Reine Philiberte de Varicourt (adopted 1776)
University: Jesuit College of Louis-le-Grand, Paris
French Academy 1746 Libel 1716 Exiled (May-1716) Libel imprisoned in the Bastille Inmate: Bastille 16-May-1717 to Apr-1718 Exiled to England (1726-29) Libel 10-Jun-1734 Exiled (1734) Forgery 1751 Exhumed 1791 Exhumed 1814 Risk Factors: Smallpox
Author of books:
Histoire de Charles XII (1731, history) Lettres Philosophiques (1734, letters) Éléments de la Philosophie de Newton (1738) Zadig (1747) Vision de Babouc (1748) Memnon (1749) Le Siècle de Louis XIV (1751, history) Micromégas (1752) Essai sur les Moeurs (1756) Candide (1759, novella) Histoire de l'Empire de Russie sous Pierre le Grand (1759–63, history) Philosophie de l'Histoire (1765) Précis du Siècle de Louis XV (1768, history)
Wrote plays:
Brutus (1730) Eriphyle (1732) Adélaïde du Guesclin (1734) La Mort de César (1735) Alzire (1736) L'Enfant Prodigue (1736) Mahomet (1742) Mérope (1743) Sémiramis (1748) Nanine (1749)
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