| 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, Panth�on, Paris, France
Gender: Male
Religion: Deist
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Author, Playwright Nationality: France
Executive summary: 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
Inmate: Bastille 16-May-1717 to Apr-1718
Exiled to England (1726-29)
Libel 10-Jun-1734
Exiled (1734)
Forgery 1751
Exhumed 1791
Exhumed 1814
Risk Factors: Smallpox
Author of books:
Histoire de Charles XII (1731, history)
Lettres Philosophiques (1734, letters)
�l�ments de la Philosophie de Newton (1738)
Zadig (1747)
Vision de Babouc (1748)
Memnon (1749)
Le Si�cle de Louis XIV (1751, history)
Microm�gas (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)
Pr�cis du Si�cle de Louis XV (1768, history)
Wrote plays:
Brutus (1730)
Eriphyle (1732)
Ad�la�de du Guesclin (1734)
La Mort de C�sar (1735)
Alzire (1736)
L'Enfant Prodigue (1736)
Mahomet (1742)
M�rope (1743)
S�miramis (1748)
Nanine (1749)
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