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Voltaire (1694 - 1778)

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Short name	Voltaire
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First name	Francois-Marie
Birth name	Arouet
Alternative name	François-Marie Arouet
Date of birth	1694
Date of death	1778
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Sex	Male
Place of birth	Paris
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Lived in	France
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Voltaire was ...

related to	Benoist, Françoise-Albine
related to	Deshoulières, Antoinette
correspondent	Leprince de Beaumont, Marie

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Memberships	Académie française
Place(s) of Residence	France

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	receptions	circulations
La Henriade (1723)	1	0
*à préciser (1735) is also a reception: is plagiarism of Barbier, Marie-Anne, La mort de César	0	0
Discours en vers sur l'homme (1738)	1	0
Mérope (1743)	2	0
Voltaire, Réponse à une dame ou soi-disant telle (1750)	0	0
*Commentaire dans une lettre à D'Argental (1752) is also a reception: comments on work Graffigny, Françoise de, Cénie	0	0
Tancrède (1760) is also a reception: is adaptation of Marie-Louise Charlotte Fontaines, Histoire de la Comtesse de Savoye	0	0
Lettre au comte et à la comtesse d'Argental (1763) is also a reception: comments on work Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Turkish Embassy Letters	0	0
Lettre au comte et à la comtesse d'Argental (1763) is also a reception: comments on work Sévigné, Marie de, Lettres [de Madame de Sévigné]	0	0
Essai sur la poésie épique	0	0

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Circulations of Voltaire, the person (for circulations of his works, see under each individual Work)

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Receptions of Voltaire, the person

For receptions of his works, see under each individual Work.

Title	Author	Date	Type
Hommage aux mânes de Corneille et de Voltaire, présenté à l'Institut national par Marie-Victoire-Hortense Frescarode	Marie-Victoire-Hortense Frescorade	1770	is dedicated to