Voltaire And The Enlightenment

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Voltaire was broadly considered one among Frances best Enlightenment writers. He was born in Paris, France on November 21,1694. He was the youngest of five children of François Arouet and Marie Marguerite d'Aumart. Voltaire was given the birth name François-Marie Arouet. Whilst at the young age of seven years ol his mother passed away. The passing of his mother he became close to his grandfather that was more of an open minded and free-thinking person. It is almost certainly that he owed his positive attitude and his sense of reality to his conformist origins. He attended the Jesuit college of Louis-le-Grand in Paris, where he learned to love poetry, the drama, and social life. While he appreciated the classical sensitivity, the college instilled