B orn Francois-Marie Arouet in 1694, this celebrated playwright, poet, essayist, and philosopher reinvented himself as simply ...

The play is made up of selected letter exchanges between the great French-European philosopher and the royal prince ... and ending with the eulogy Frederick II wrote when Voltaire died in 1778. Their ...

Not only did Voltaire not have his own philosophical system, but he also did not create his own original philosophy. But that does not make him an insignificant philosopher. He pushed boundaries ...

Writer and philosopher Voltaire, loyal to his king, Louis XV of France, nonetheless writes scathingly of the king's disdain for the rights and needs of his people. Louis admires Voltaire ...