Voltaire

Voltaire was a versatile writer, producing works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, and historical and scientific works. He wrote more than 20,000 letters and more than 2,000 books and pamphlets. He was an outspoken advocate of civil liberties, despite the risk this placed him in under the strict censorship laws of the time. As a satirical polemicist, he frequently made use of his works to criticize intolerance, religious dogma, and the French institutions of his day.

PlaysVoltaire wrote between fifty and sixty plays, including a few unfinished one. Among them are these:

Œdipe  (1718) Mariamne  (1724) Éryphile  (1732) Zaïre  (1732) Mahomet  (1741) Mérope  (1743) La princesse de Navarre  (1745) Nanine  (1749) L'Orphelin de la Chine  (1755) Socrate  (published 1759)

La Femme Qui a Raison  (1759) Irène (1778)

his novella Candide, 

Voltaire wrote more than 50 plays, dozens of treatises on science, politics and philosophy, and several books of history on everything from the Russian Empire to the French Parliament. Along the way, he also managed to squeeze in heaps of verse and a voluminous correspondence amounting to some 20,000 letters to friends and contemporaries. Voltaire supposedly kept up his prodigious output by spending up to 18 hours a day writing or dictating to secretaries, often while still in bed. He may have also been fueled by heroic amounts of caffeine—according to some sources, he drank as many as 40 cups a day.

His work helped sow the seeds for the American and French Revolutions.

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