| Voltaire  AKA François Marie Arouet
Born: 21-Nov-1694
Birthplace: Paris, France
Died: 30-May-1778
Location of death: Chatenay, France
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Buried, Pantheon, Paris, France. Formerly in an abbey at Champaign.
Gender: Male
Religion: Deist
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Author, Playwright Nationality: France
Executive summary: Enlightenment author of Candide Father: Rochebrune (officer)
Father: François Arouet (notary, d. Dec-1721)
Mother: Marie-Marguerite Daumart (d. 1701)
Sister: Marguerite Catherine Arouet
Girlfriend: Gabrielle Émilie de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet-Laumont (1733-49)
Girlfriend: Marie Louise Mignot (his niece)
Slept with: Madame de Rupelmonde (1722)
Daughter: Reine Philiberte de Varicourt (adopted 1776)
University: Jesuit College of Louis-le-Grand, Paris
French Academy 1746
Libel 1716
Exiled (May-1716)
Libel imprisoned in the Bastille 16-May-1717 to Apr-1718
Exiled to England (1726-29)
Libel 10-Jun-1734
Exiled (1734)
Forgery 1751
Exhumed 1791
Exhumed 1814
Author of books:
Histoire de Charles XII (1731, history)
Lettres Philosophiques (1734, letters)
Éléments de la Philosophie de Newton (1738)
Zadig (1747)
Vision de Babouc (1748)
Memnon (1749)
Le Siècle de Louis XIV (1751, history)
Micromégas (1752)
Essai sur les Moeurs (1756)
Candide (1759, novella)
Histoire de l'Empire de Russie sous Pierre le Grand (1759–63, history)
Philosophie de l'Histoire (1765)
Précis du Siècle de Louis XV (1768, history)
Wrote plays:
Brutus (1730)
Eriphyle (1732)
Adélaïde du Guesclin (1734)
La Mort de César (1735)
Alzire (1736)
L'Enfant Prodigue (1736)
Mahomet (1742)
Mérope (1743)
Sémiramis (1748)
Nanine (1749)
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