Short biography francois marie arouet optimism
Voltaire #philosophy
François-Marie d'Arouet (–), better known by his pen name Voltaire, was a French writer and public activist who played a singular role in defining the eighteenth-century .
Voltaire known for
His first bitter attack on optimism was Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne (; Poem on the Lisbon Earthquake, ).
When was voltaire born
It was during his subsequent eleven month period of detention that François Marie Arouet / Voltaire completed his first dramatic tragedy, Oedipe.
Voltaire quotes
Voltaire was born François-Marie Arouet to a prosperous family on November 21, , in Paris.