Voltaire
Auteur local de Ferney-Voltaire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Voltaire was the pen name of François-Marie Arouet (1694–1778), the Paris-born wit who was jailed in the Bastille and exiled for his writing. From his estate at Ferney near Geneva he campaigned against religious intolerance and became the voice of the French Enlightenment.