Voltaire
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Voltaire, pseudonym of François-Marie Arouet (1694–1778), the most celebrated of the French ‘ Philosophes’. Throughout his life he opposed the Catholic Church, though he warmly defended
Deism. His
Lettres Philosophiques (1734) was publicly burnt in Paris, and he fled to Champagne. In 1758 he bought an estate on the Swiss border and lived as a country gentleman. Here he turned to positive social action, taking up the cause of victims of religious intolerance. He attacked atheism not, as is sometimes maintained, because he regarded belief in the existence of God and personal immortality as necessary simply for the government of the masses, but out of a pragmatic conviction that without these beliefs human existence would be one of meaningless anarchy.
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