Voltaire+P2

=FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE (1694-1778)=
 * Voltaire is a great French literary figure. He is most famous for his novel //Candide// in which he makes fun of Leibniz who held that this is the best of all possible worlds.**

1704 Sent to the College Louis-le-Grand, a Jesuit institution, where he experience stage-plays in both Latin and French which explained the interest he had in the stage throughout his life. 1722 Began his adventures as a "secret diplomat" to Dubois 1733 He gets trouble again for criticism of the English in his Letters on the English Nation which was only a guise for the criticism of both the church and state of France. He flees to Lorraine where he spends the next fifteen years at the chateau of Cirey with his mistress Emile de Breteuil, marquise du Chatelet. 1745 Appointed Royal Historiographer of France. 1746 Elected to the French Academy. 1751-Stayed three years in Berlin to serve as philosopher to poet Frederick the Great
 * __VOLTAIRE TIMELINE:__**

Paris, France Berlin, Germany Geneva, Switzerland Cirey, France
 * __Life locations__**

Young Francois Marie studied "Louis-le-Grand," at Jesuit College in Paris where he stated he learned nothing but "Latin and the Stupidities." He dropped out at 17 and soon made friends among the Parisian aristocrats. His humorous verses made him a favorite in society circles. In 1717, thoughts and beliefs got him into trouble with the authorities. He was sent prison in the Bastille for eleven months for writing a scathing satire of the French government. During his time in prison Francois Marie wrote "Oedipe" which was to become his first theatrical success and adopted his pen name "Voltaire."
 * __Life of Voltaire__**

"Those who can make you believe absurditiescan make you commit atrocities". "All styles are good except the tiresome kind." "All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."
 * __VOLTAIRE'S QUOTES:__**