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Fast Facts
Birth Name: François-Marie Arouet
Born: November 21, 1694 in Paris, France
Language: French, Latin, Greek, Italian, Spanish and English
Key Subjects: Catholic Church Dogma, civil liberties and social reform
Studied Law
Exiled for inflammatory writings
Wrote first play in prison
Never Married
A millionaire by age 40
Was a freemason
Died: May 30, 1778 in Paris, France
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01. real name - François-Marie Arouet;
02. born - 21 November 1694;
03. died - 30 May 1778;
04. imprisoned in the Bastille for eleven months, in 1717, because of a satirical piece he wrote about the French government of the time;
05. he spent 3 years in exile in England, from 1726 to 1729, where he got interested in work of John Locke, and that of Sir Isaac Newton;
06. initiated into Freemasonry on 4 April 1778;
07. denied a burial in church ground due to his criticism of the church;
08. in 1814, a group of right-wing religious fundamentalists stole Voltaire’s remains and dumped them onto a garbage heap;
09. Voltaire's heart is being kept in the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris;
10. Voltaire's brain was also removed after his death, but, after passing from hand to hand, over some 100 years, it disappeared after an auction.
various sources... he is so well known, all you need to do is to google "Voltaire"...
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thank you