Voltaire | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-08

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00:01:04 1 Biography
00:04:34 1.1 Name
00:06:44 1.2 Early fiction
00:08:24 1.3 Great Britain
00:12:41 1.4 Château de Cirey
00:18:07 1.5 Prussia
00:21:02 1.6 Geneva and Ferney
00:23:42 1.7 Death and burial
00:26:09 2 Writings
00:26:18 2.1 History
00:29:43 2.2 Poetry
00:30:45 2.3 Prose
00:35:15 2.4 Letters
00:36:04 3 Religious views
00:37:31 3.1 Christianity
00:41:45 3.2 Judaism
00:44:59 3.3 Islam
00:48:52 3.3.1 Drama iMahomet/i
00:51:34 3.4 Hinduism
00:52:22 4 Views on race and slavery
00:55:05 5 Appreciation and influence
01:00:00 6 Voltaire and Rousseau
01:04:05 7 Legacy
01:09:00 8 Chronology
01:09:10 9 Works
01:09:18 9.1 Non-fiction
01:11:50 9.2 Novellas
01:13:46 9.3 Plays
01:15:22 9.4 Collected works
01:16:01 10 See also



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François-Marie Arouet (French: [fʁɑ̃swa maʁi aʁwɛ]; 21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778), known by his nom de plume Voltaire (; French: [vɔltɛːʁ]), was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit, his criticism of Christianity, especially the Roman Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and separation of church and state.
Voltaire was a versatile and prolific writer, producing works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays and historical and scientific works. He wrote more than 20,000 letters and more than 2,000 books and pamphlets. He was an outspoken advocate of civil liberties, despite the risk this placed him in under the strict censorship laws of the time. As a satirical polemicist, he frequently made use of his works to criticize intolerance, religious dogma and the French institutions of his day.