Voltaire

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This page is about the deist writer and philosopher. For the musician, see Voltaire (musician).

François-Marie Arouet (November 21, 1694—May 30, 1778), better known by the pen name Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, deist and philosopher.

[edit] Portraits of Voltaire

Portrait of Voltaire	Portrait of Voltaire
Portrait of Voltaire	Portrait of Voltaire	Voltaire at his desk. Engraving by Baquoy	Adolph von Menzel: Tafelrunde König Friedrich II. Voltaire is on the left.

[edit] Voltaire statues

Voltaire naked, by Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, 1776, Louvre.	Voltaire naked, by Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, 1776, Louvre.	Voltaire naked, by Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, 1776, Louvre.	Buste de Voltaire avec perruque, Bust of Voltaire with wig, 1778, marbre, marble, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Jean Antoine Houdon (1741 - 1828)
Voltaire devant le tombeau de Jean Jacques Rousseau au Pantheon de Paris	Statue in the Hôtel de Ville of Paris

[edit] Manuscript texts

Voltaire handwriting, regarding the case Jean Calas. The phrase écrasez l'infâme at the bottom.

[edit] Books

Candide	Title page of Voltaires Lettres sur les Anglois (Letters about the English), printed in 1735.	Voltaire's Lettres sur les Anglois. The beginning of chapter 10, Lettre sur la Commerce. Printed in 1735.	Frontispiece to Voltaire's interpretation of Isaac Newton's work, Elémens de la philosophie de Newton (1738)
Mahomet	Essai sur les mœurs et l'esprit des nations	Candide