François-Marie Arouet (French pronunciation: ; 21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778), better known by the pen name Voltaire (pronounced: ), was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and ...

Voltaire was enabled to become an old and famous aristocrat by his lottery winnings. Flickr. Francois-Marie Arouet, better-remembered by his pen name “Voltaire,” was born on this day in 1694.

A famous Enlightenment era writer and philosopher, Voltaire made a splash with his first play, Oedipe. Wikimedia Commons François-Marie d’Arouet was the kind of precocious teen who always got ...

Né François-Marie Arouet, Voltaire vient d’un milieu bourgeois de Paris. « Il profite assez tôt d’une excellente éducation et, parce que c’est un élève brillant, il se distingue ...