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I do not have all the details but the French political philosopher and very much an original spirit, did like guns, and worked them into many of his novels. it has been argued that Voltaire (Invented) the Noble Savage idea- centuries before Tarzan was contrived by Edgar Rice Burroughs. The novel Candide espoused the idea- it was banned by the church for a long period. There is a discussion of how flintlock shotguns were used in hunting in the story. There is also a primitive type of machine gun ( multiple barrel affair, all firing simultaneously_) that has been called a Voltaire Battery. It is not known if he invented this firearm or not. In a sense the Voltaire battery was a forerunner of the Gatlilng Gun and Montigny Mitrailleuse.

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