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Voltaire (jan 1, 1694 – jan 1, 1778)

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Francois Marie Arouet, known as Voltaire, was one of the most famous philosophes, who advocated for political reform and rejected Catholicism in favor of deism; he believed in a distant noninterventionist deity.

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jan 1, 1694
jan 1, 1778
~ 84 years