![]() ![]() He wrote more than 20,000 letters and 2,000 books and pamphlets. Voltaire was a versatile and prolific writer, producing works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, histories, but also scientific expositions. ![]() Voltaire was an advocate of freedom of speech, freedom of religion and separation of church and state. de Voltaire ( / v ɒ l ˈ t ɛər, v oʊ l-/ also US: / v ɔː l-/ French: ), he was famous for his wit, in addition to his criticism of Christianity-especially of the Roman Catholic Church-and of slavery. Vissarion Belinsky, Jeremy Bentham, Jorge Luis Borges, Lord Byron, Catherine the Great, Emilie de Chatelet, Denis Diderot, Gustave Flaubert, Frederick the Great, William Godwin, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Alexander Herzen, Kermani, Christopher Hitchens, Victor Hugo, Karl Marx, Napoleon, Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Paine, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Percy Bysshe Shelley, David Strauss, Mary Wollstonecraftįrançois-Marie Arouet ( French: 21 November 1694 – ) was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher ( philosophe) and historian. ![]()
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