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Voltaire (1694–1778)
Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de (vol-tãr’). The renowned French writer, whose name of Voltaire was assumed; born in Paris, Nov. 21, 1694; died there, May 30, 1778. His works include: ‘Œdipus’ (1718); ‘Artemire’ (1721); ‘Mariamne’ (1722); ‘La Henriade’ (1723), originally published as ‘The League; or, Henry the Great’; ‘History of Charles XII.’ (1731); ‘Letters on the English’ (1733); ‘Brutus’ (1731); ‘Philosophical Letters’ (1732?); ‘Zaïre’ (1732); ‘Eriphyle’ (1732); ‘Adelaide Duguesclin’ (1734); ‘The Death of Cæsar’ (1731); ‘Elements of Newton’s Philosophy’ (1735); ‘The Maid of Orleans’ (1736); ‘Alzire’ (1736); ‘Zulime’ (1740); ‘Mahomet’ (1741); ‘The Prodigal Son’ (1742?); ‘Mérope’ (1743); ‘Discourse on Man’; ‘The Princess of Navarre’ (1746); ‘Semiramis’; ‘Orestes’ (1750); ‘Nanine’; ‘Century of Louis XIV.’ (1751); ‘Diatribe of Doctor Akakia’ (1752); ‘Amélie’ (1752); ‘Poem on Natural Law’ (1756); ‘Candide’ (1758); ‘History of Russia under Peter I.’ (1759); ‘Republican Ideas’ (1762); ‘On Toleration’ (1763); ‘Catechism of the Honest Man’ (1763); ‘Tales’ (1763); ‘Commentary on Corneille’ (1764?); ‘Agathocles’ (1764?); ‘Julius Cæsar’ (1764), “a translation from the English of Shakespeare”; (1764); ‘Irene’; ‘Tancrède’ (1765); ‘Socrates’ (1765?); ‘The Bible at Last Explained’ (1766); ‘Pyrrhonism of History’; ‘Century of Louis XV.’ (1766?). The author’s habit of secret and anonymous publication makes his bibliography difficult of compilation. The dates of ‘Zadig’; ‘Micromegas’; ‘Jeannot and Colin’; ‘The Ingenuous One’; and ‘The Princess of Babylon,’ are in doubt. (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).