Born Francois-Marie Arouet in 1694, this celebrated playwright, poet, essayist, and philosopher reinvented himself as simply “Voltaire” in 1718. Candide is his most enduring work—a raw, rollicking, ...

Is this world the best possible world? Some would agree that it is because God, as a perfect being, created it. However, some ...

The play is made up of selected letter exchanges between the great French-European philosopher and the royal prince ... and ending with the eulogy Frederick II wrote when Voltaire died in 1778. Their ...

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.” These words of the French philosopher Voltaire (1694-1778) rightly portray as blind those who are wrapped up in themselves. They ...

that Bolingbroke met Voltaire, found in him intelligence and inclination, and inspired him to become the apostle of a new philosophy of pure reason. It was Voltaire's journey to and residence in ...