Voltaire

Si **François-Marie Arouet** (; 21 November 169430 May 1778), midbid sa saiyang tagong-ngaran na **Voltaire** (; also ; ), sarong Pranses Pagmumuklat na parasurat, historyador, asin pilosopo bantog kan saiyang mapanas na pag'iisip, saiyang pagtuyaw sa Kristyandad—orog na an Simbahan Katoliko Romano— asin kan kaoripnan, kan saiyang adbokasiya sa talingkas na pagtaram, talingkas na pagtubod, asin an pagkasuway kan simbahan sa estado.

Si Voltaire mahusay asin mahigos na parasurat, nagpoprodyusir nin pagsusurat sa maski ano na lang na porma literaryo, kairiba na diyan an dula, rawitdawit, nobela, prosa, historya, asin mga sayantipikong pagpahayag. Siya nagguhit nin sobra sa 20,000 na mga kasuratan asin 2,000 na libro asin polyeto. Siya an saro sa mga naenot na mga kagsurat na internasyonal na nabantog asin komersyal na nagbenta kan mga gibo niya. Siya maisog na nag'tutulod sa libertad sibil asin pirmi yaon sa huma nin estriktong pagsesensor huli kan mahigot na mga leyes kan monarkiyang Katolikong Pranses. An mga polemiko niya malanit na nagtutuya-tuya' kan intoleransya, dogma relihiyoso, asin kan mga kagawean nin Pranses sa panahon niyang idto. An pinakabantogan na obra niya asin kumbaga *[[magnum opus]]*, iyo an *[[Candide]]*, sarong halipot na nobela na nagkokomento, nagtutuyaw, asin nagtuya-tuya' dapit kan mga pangyayari, mga paraisip, asin kan mga pilosopiya sa panahon niya.                                                                                                                                                                 
## Mga sinurat
### Non-piksyon
* *Letters on the Quakers* (1727)
* *[[Letters on the English|Letters concerning the English nation]]* (London, 1733) (French version entitled *Lettres philosophiques sur les Anglais*, Rouen, 1734), revised as *[[Letters on the English]]* (circa 1778)
* "Le Mondain" (1736)
* *Sept Discours en Vers sur l'Homme* (1738)
* *[[Elements of the Philosophy of Newton|The Elements of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy]]* (1738; 2nd expanded ed. 1745)
* *[[Dictionnaire philosophique]]* (1752)
* *The Sermon of the Fifty* (1759)
* *The Calas Affair: A Treatise on Tolerance* (1762)
* *[[Treatise on Tolerance|Traité sur la tolérance]]* (1763)
* *Ce qui plaît aux dames* (1764)
* *[[Idées républicaines]]* (1765)
* *La Philosophie de l'histoire* (1765)
* *[[Questions sur les Miracles]]* (1765)
* *[[L'Ingénu]]* (1767)
* *La Princesse de Babylone* (1768)
* *[[Des singularités de la nature]]* (1768)
* *[[Les Dialogues d’Evhémère]]* (1777)

#### Historya
* *[[History of Charles XII]], King of Sweden* (1731)
* *[[The Age of Louis XIV]]* (1751)
* *[[Précis du siècle de Louis XV|The Age of Louis XV]]* (1746–1752; published separately 1768)
* *[[Annals of the Empire]] – Charlemagne, AD 742 – Henry VII 1313*, Vol. I (1754)
* *Annals of the Empire – Louis of Bavaria, 1315 to Ferdinand II 1631* Vol. II (1754)
* *[[Essai sur les mœurs et l'esprit des nations|Essay on Universal History, the Manners, and Spirit of Nations]]* (1756)
* *History of the Russian Empire Under [[Peter the Great]]* (Vol. I 1759; Vol. II 1763)

### Halipot na nobela
* *The One-eyed Street Porter, Cosi-sancta* (1715)
* *[[Micromégas]]* (1738)
* *The World as it Goes* (1750)
* *Memnon* (1750)
* *Bababec and the Fakirs* (1750)
* *Timon* (1755)
* *[[Plato's Dream]]* (1756)
* *The Travels of Scarmentado* (1756)
* *The Two Consoled Ones* (1756)
* *[[Zadig]], or, Destiny* (1757)
* *[[Candide]], or Optimism* (1758)
* *Story of a Good Brahman* (1759)
* *The King of Boutan* (1761)
* *The City of Cashmere* (1760)
* *An Indian Adventure* (1764)
* *The White and the Black* (1764)
* *Jeannot and Colin* (1764)
* *The Blind Judges of Colors* (1766)
* *The Princess of Babylon* (1768)
* *The Man with Forty Crowns* (1768)
* *The Letters of Amabed* (1769)
* *[[L'Ingénu|The Huron, or Pupil of Nature]]* (1771)
* *The White Bull* (1772)
* *An Incident of Memory* (1773)
* *The History of Jenni* (1774)
* *The Travels of Reason* (1774)
* *The Ears of Lord Chesterfield and Chaplain Goudman* (1775)

### Dula/drama
Si Voltaire nagsurat nin sa pag'ultan mga singkwenta asin sisentang mga dula, na may ibang dai natapos. Magkapira igdi iyo an minasunod:
* *[[Oedipus (Voltaire play)|Œdipe]]* (1718)
* *[[Artémire (tragedy)|Artémire]]* (1720)
* *[[Hérode et Mariamne|Mariamne]]* (1724)
* *[[Brutus (tragedy)|Brutus]]* (1730)
* *[[Ériphyle (tragedy)|Éryphile]]* (1732)
* *[[Zaïre (play)|Zaïre]]* (1732), inspiration for *[[Zaira (opera)|Zaira]]*, opera by Vincenzo Bellini (1829)
* *[[Alzire, ou les Américains (play)|Alzire, ou les Américains]]* (1736), inspiration for *[[Alzira (opera)|Alzira]]*, opera by Giuseppe Verdi (1845)
* *[[Zulima]]* (1740)
* *[[Mahomet (play)|Mahomet]]* (1741)
* *[[Mérope]]* (1743)
* *[[La princesse de Navarre]]* (1745)
* *[[Sémiramis (tragedy)|Sémiramis]]* (1748), inspiration for *[[Semiramide]]*, opera by Gioachino Rossini (1823)
* *[[Nanine]]* (1749)
* *[[L'Orphelin de la Chine]]* (1755)
* *[[Voltaire's Socrates (play)|Socrate]]* (published 1759)
* *[[La Femme qui a Raison]]* (1759)
* *[[Tancrède (tragedy)|Tancrède]]* (1760), inspiration for *[[Tancredi]]*, opera by Gioachino Rossini (1813)
* *[[Don Pèdre, roi de Castille]]* (1774)
* *[[Sophonisbe (tragedy)|Sophonisbe]]* (1774)
* *[[Irène (tragedy)|Irène]]* (1778)
* *[[Agathocle]]* (1779)

### Mga obrang dinamot
* *Oeuvres complètes de Voltaire*, A. Beuchot (ed.). 72 vols. (1829–1840)
* *Oeuvres complètes de Voltaire*, Louis E.D. Moland and G. Bengesco (eds.). 52 vols. (1877–1885)
* *Oeuvres complètes de Voltaire*, Theodore Besterman, *et al.* (eds.). 144 vols. (1968–2018)

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