... better known as "Voltaire" grew up in a middle class family in Paris where most of the people at this time were living in poverty. During his upbringing the French Aristocracy ruled with an iron fist, but at the same time the Enlightenment Movement was spreading ideas about the equality and basic rights of man and the importance of reason and scientific objectivity. This sparked his career as being a controversial writer, critiquing ... the nobility, philosophy, and the church in his writing. As he became more prominent as an author ... ...

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