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https://www.biography.com/people/voltaire-9520178
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Voltaire
https://classroom.synonym.com/what-were-some-of-voltaires-beliefs-12084029.html

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- Religious Freedom: Guaranteed in US Bill of Rights and French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizens; European monarchs reduce persecutions
- His beliefs ultimately led to the French Revolution, the United States Bill of Rights, and the decrease in the power of the Catholic Church.

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Voltaire did not want people to be content with misfortunes, whether caused by humans or by nature, but hoped that people could use reason and science to make things better.  Voltaire wants people to overcome such traditional beliefs and superstitions, and to be honest about what’s going on around them. He encourages people to empower themselves and take an active position towards life.

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In 1704, Voltaire was enrolled at the Collége Louis-le-Grand, a Jesuit secondary school in Paris, where he received a classical education and began showing promise as a writer

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- Candide(1759 most greatest work)He depicts Professor Pangloss, a philosopher who claims that we live in the “best of all possible worlds” no matter how many misfortunes he or the main character Candide suffer.
- Dictionnaire philosophique, an encyclopedic dictionary that embraced the concepts of Enlightenment and rejected the ideas of the Roman Catholic Church.

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- London
_ Paris
- Geneva

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Voltaire often used satire against his opponents. He made frequent targets of the clergy, the aristocracy, and the government. His sharp tongue made him enemies at the French court, and twice he was sent to prison. After his second jail term, Voltaire was exiled to England for more than two years.

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Voltaire was a proponent Although he made powerful enemies, Voltaire never stopped fighting for tolerance, reason, freedom of religious belief, and freedom of speech. For Voltaire, rational human beings -- for the most part -- were capable of thinking for themselves and therefore did not need institutions thinking for them.

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- Born François-Marie Arouet to a prosperous family on November 21, 1694, in Paris, France
- Youngest of five children
- Born to François Arouet and Marie Marguerite d'Aumart
- Seven years old, his mother passed away

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Voltaire was influenced by the scientist and philosopher Newton’s ability to describe nature as being ordered on the basis of rational principles.