... driving them to a revolution. Voltaire, a philosopher, social critic, and probably the most influential of the philosophes, championed reason, justice and human dignity. He was a prolific and popular writer, the author of numerous stories, essays, poems, plays and pamphlets that castigated, often satirically, the "relics" of the established medieval social order, particularly the clergy - he greatly criticised organised religion - and the ... music, art and science, in novels, essays, poems and plays. He was also one of the founders and main editor of the great "Encyclopedia"- a series of...

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