The book also satirized the religious teachings of Rene Descartes and Blaise Pascal, including Pascal's famed "wager" on God.
There he wrote Lettres philosophiques (1733), which galvanized French reform. Upon a second imprisonment, in which Francois adopted the pen name Voltaire, he was released after agreeing to move to London. He launched a lifelong, successful playwriting career in 1718, interrupted by imprisonment in the Bastille. Jesuit-educated, he began writing clever verses by the age of 12. In 1694, Age of Enlightenment leader Francois-Marie Arouet, known as Voltaire, was born in Paris.
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