![]() ![]() Gulliver's Travels is the closest literary influence of Candide's. In England, he met significant writers of the time, such as Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), author of Gulliver's Travels. Of his exile experiences, the most significant for him and his writing was the one that took him to Englandįor almost two years in 1726. In the Bastille for writing a satire about the Regent of France. While extremely popular with the Parisian public, his contemporaries, and even royalty, Voltaire was imprisoned He wasĮven once imprisoned in the Bastille for almost a year. His criticism towards governmental and ecclesiastical authorities caused him banishment and exile. His life was a series of bitter and personal controversies. Amongst his early works, Oedipe, a strong tragedy started his career as a famous writer, Voltaire. He attended a Jesuit college of Lyc?e Louis-le-Grand. His father not being a caring one, he was influenced by his godfather, who was a free thinker. Term Paper, AP European History Class, March 2008įrancois-Marie Arouet, pen name Voltaire, was born in Paris in 1694. ![]()
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