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Voltaire in his 84 years of life was a historian and essayist, playwright and storyteller, poet and philosopher, wit and pamphleteer, wealthy businessman and practical economic reformer.

edit: The greatest figure of the Enlightenment was Francois-Marie Arout, known simply as Voltaire. A Parisian, Voltaire came from a prosperous middle-class family. His numerous writings brought him both fame and fortune.

Voltaire was especially well known for his critism of Christianity and his strong belief in religious toleration. He fought against religious intolerance in France. In 1763 he penned he Treatise on Toleration, in which he reminded governments that "all men are brothers under God."

Throughout his life, Voltaire championed deism, an eighteenth-century religious philosophy based on reason and natural law. Deism built on he idea of the newtonian world-machine. In the Deists' view, a mechanic (God) had creaed the universe. To Voltaire and most other philosophes, the universe was like a clock. God, the clock-maker, had created it, set it in motion, and allowed it to run without his interference and accprding to its own natural laws.

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