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v0ltaire.

.brilliant Frenchman' OF whom, per.
haps, less is known by the general pub.
lie than Of any man Of go great repu.
tation. The son Of French advocate,
Francois Marie Arouet, for such was the
true name of the man SO widely known
ms voltaire, was himself destined for the
profession of the law. But he soon
manifested great disgust for the
profession chosen for him, and, leaving
the law, devoted himself to literature,
much TO his fathers disappointment.
Introduced by the celebrated Ninon de
l'Enclos into the best French society,
young Arouet soon became famous for
his brilliant wit, and was much sought
after by the nobility of France, SO much
so that ON one occasion, when taking his
seat at dinner, he said. after taking n
rapid glance up and down the table,
"and are we all, then, either princes or
poets" When he was about twenty,
some verses which were published,
rejecting upon the government Of Louis
XIV were wrongfully attributed to him,
and he was arrested and thrown into the
Bastilc, where he remained about year
and a.half. While in prison he wrote
his "Henriade" and "Edipc." These
were published upon his release, and
gave him at once foremost place among
French writers. His subsequent works
were not so well received. Carlyle says
that in Franco "Voltaire got almost
nothing by his books, which he gensr.
nlly had to disown, and denounce as
sureptitious, supposititious scandals,
when some sharp.set bookseller, in whose
way he had laid the savory article as
bait, chose to risk his ears for the profit
OF snatching and publishing it,"
Some seven years after his
first imprisonment, M. Arouet found
himself again in the Bastile. He
had been dining with the Duo
do Sulli, where the Chevalier de
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very n"pps one' o"' III a''er years quar-
i.'S arose. "hioi were augmented by
'he frequent VISITS 10 'he castle oil
certain NJ ne OF. ha'hoert' lie wa
neither Mathematician nor poet, yet hi
found favor In tine eyes oil Madame
me Illness subsequent TO the birth o
eh'iu was iata' TO the mother
around her uea'h,neu stood the Mar
gus lhe husoahd' Noitaire the Ola lover
anu 81, LAMBERT .he new ohe-th'
nusoahu silent ana thoughtful and
oi'airs bitterly repro"'h'hg St' Lam
.er' as 'eilig 'he author OF .he trouble
A''eF her aealh oltaire asked TO nave
'ing' "hi'n ne naa give" her' contain