Monday, 28 September 2009
Voltaire
I was confused whether to take it from online or from the paper, so I did online. Francis Marie Aroute a.k.a. Voltaire was born on 1694. He went to school at "Louis-Le-Grand" where he thought they only taught him "Latin and stupidities". He left school at seventeen and made friends with some Aristocrats. He was a smooth talker and was the bomb at parties but because that eventually got him sent to jail and later by another incident exiled. He lived in England for three years. Here he got interested in the ideas of John Locke and Sir Isaac Newton. In 1784, he returned back to Paris and wrote a book praising the British. This was taken as a threat to the French government and he got exiled again. In 1789, he bought an estate named "Ferney" and started writing plays and books. He came back a hero in France but the it was too much for him and he died. Voltaire is known to be an Author, Philosopher and a Historian. Any Question?
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