François-Marie Arouet, better known by the pen name Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer and philosopher famous for his wit and for his advocacy of civil liberties, including freedom of religion and free trade. Voltaire was a prolific writer and produced works in almost every literary form including plays, poetry, novels, essays, historical and scientific works, more than 20,000 letters and more than 2,000 books and pamphlets. He was an outspoken supporter of social reform, despite strict censorship laws and harsh penalties for those who broke them. As a satirical polemicist, he frequently made use of his works to criticize intolerance, religious dogma and the French institutions of his day.
Voltaire was one of several Enlightenment figures (along with Montesquieu, John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau) whose works and ideas influenced important thinkers of both the American and French Revolutions. (Source)
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Candide
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Lettres philosophiques
80 editions - first published in 1733 Read -
Oeuvres complètes de Voltaire: avec notice, préfaces, variantes, table analytique, les notes de tous les commentateurs et des notes nouvelles, conforme pour le texte à l'èdition de Beuchot, enrichie des découvertes les plus récentes et mise au courant des travaux qui ont paru jusqu'à ce jour
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Henriade
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Zadig
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Pucelle d'Orléans
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Romans et contes
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Zaïre
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Alzire
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Correspondence and related documents
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Candide, Zadig, and Selected Stories
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Le siècle de Louis XIV
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The portable Voltaire
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Zaire
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Mahomet
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Voltaire's Philosophical dictionary
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Tancrède
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Correspondence and related documents (of) Voltaire
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Voltaire par lui-même
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Evangile du jour
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Orphelin de la Chine
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The Complete Works of Voltaire
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The works of Voltaire
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Prose works
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Romans
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Théatre de Voltaire
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Oeuvres completes de Voltaire
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The works of M. de Voltaire
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Princesse de Babylone
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Traité sur la tolérance: a treatise on tolerance
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Mérope: tragédie
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Histoire de la guerre de 1741
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Histoire de Charles XII, roi de Suède
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Zadig, ou, La destinée
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Théâtre de Voltaire
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Candide and other tales
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La philosophie de l'histoire
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Collection complette des oeuvres
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Diccionario Filosofico
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Le taureau blanc
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Sémiramis
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Candide
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Contes
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The best known works of Voltaire: the complete romances, including Candide, The philosophy of history, The ignorant philosopher, Dialogues and Philosophic criticisms.
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Romans de Voltaire
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Oeuvres historiques
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An essay upon the civil wars of France
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Oeuvres de M. de Voltaire
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Dialogues et anecdotes philosophiques
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Eléments de la philosophie de Newton
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Le Huron ou L'Ingénu
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Histoire du Parlement de Paris
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Collection complette des œuvres de Mr. de Voltaire
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Merope
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Théâtre de Voltaire
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Mémoires pour servir à la vie de M. de Voltaire: écrits par lui-même.
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Mélanges
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Micromégas
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Zadig, ou, la destine e: histoire orientale
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Questions sur l'Encyclopedie
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Oeuvres completes
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Mémoires
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Contes et romans
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Facéties
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Voltaire's prose
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Taureau blanc
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Café
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Oeuvres complètes, avec des notes et une notice sur la vie de Voltaire
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Homme aux quarante écus: Translated from the French of M. de Voltaire.
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La Henriade: poème
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Romans et contes de Voltaire
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Le philosophe ignorant
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Essai sur les moeurs et l'esprit des nations: et sur les principaux faits de l'histoire, depuis Charlemagne jusqu'à Louis XIII
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Lettres Philosophiques
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Oeuvres complètes
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Philosophe ignorant
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Commentaires sur Corneille
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Choix de lettres: publié avec une introduction et des notes
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Oeuvres complètes de M. de Voltaire
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The Complete Works of Voltaire (VA)
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Semiramis
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Le Brutus: de Monsieur de Voltaire, avec un discours sur la tragedie.
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Lettres sur les Anglais: Edited, with introd. and notes
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Théâtre choisi illustré: notices et annotations
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Les singularités de la nature
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Zadig and other romances: translated by H. I. Woolf
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Me langes
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Oeuvres de Mr. de Voltaire
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Siecle de Louis XIV: suivi de la liste raisonn©Øee des personnages c©Øel©Łebres de son temps
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La mort de Cesar
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Lettres à Son Altesse: containing, comments on the writings of the most eminent authors, who have been accused of attacking the Christian religion. By M. Voltaire.
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Oeuvres de théatre
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Selections from Voltaire: with explanatory comment upon his life and works
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L' homme aux quarante écus
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La princesse de Babilone
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Annales de l'empire depuis Charlemagne
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Romans choisis
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Oedipe
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Œuvres completes de Voltaire
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Essay on Milton
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- Jean Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire
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