Voltaire

Goethe wrote "Faust", Voltaire "Candide", and Machado de Assis wrote "Dom Casmurro".

In Paris, Benjamin Franklin was considered a backwoods Voltaire.

Do you know Voltaire, the French philosopher, who dared to criticize Islamic dogma?

Anna Akhmatova, Maxim Gorky, Arkady Gaidar, Mark Twain, O. Henry, George Sand, Stendhal, Molière, Voltaire – all used pseudonyms, not their actual surnames.

On Tuesday, she became the first Black woman, the first American and the first professional entertainer to enter the Pantheon, reserved as the final resting place for just dozens of France’s greatest, including Victor Hugo, Voltaire, and Marie Curie.

Hung round the room are the portraits of Frederick, of Catharine, of Lekain—one of Voltaire himself, taken at the age of forty, and full of expression, with a number of silhouettes of the celebrated men of the day.