Voltaire

/vəʊlˈtɛə(ɹ)/

Synonyms for "voltaire" (8 found)

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Enlightenment symbolessayistrationalist archetypesatirist

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

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In Paris, Benjamin Franklin was considered a backwoods Voltaire.

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

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

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