The 18th-century French intellectual François-Marie Arouet is better known by another name. He was:
A) King Louis XIV B) Diderot, the encyclopedist C) Laplace, the physicist and mathematician D) Voltaire, the philosophe ü
Voltaire (1694-1778) was a brilliant writer and thinker, an enemy of tyrants, and the leading genius of the Enlightenment. Often in trouble with French authorities, he spent much of his life in exile. His vast literary output includes works in virtually every form, from poetry to political pamphlets, from novels to scientific papers. His personal correspondence amounted to more than twenty thousand letters.
