Voltaire+Timeline


 * 1694:** Born in Paris November 21. Early ability to write verse.
 * 1704:** Sent to college called Louis-le-Grand. Exposed to classical education along with stage-plays in Latin and French. He had an interest in stage throughout his life.
 * 1711:** Returns home. Wants to study literature but briefly studies law because it was his father's wish. He later gives up on learning law.
 * 1713:** His father sends him to Holland after Voltaire falls in with a bad crowd. He works in a lawyer's office briefly when returning to Paris.
 * 1714:** Satirical poems get him in to trouble. His father sends him to the Marquis de Saint-Ange, who lives in the country.
 * 1715:** Returns to Paris. He is introduced to better groups, such as the famous "Court of Sceaux"
 * 1716:** Exiled to Tulle, then Sully in May, because he mocked the regent Orleans.
 * 1717:** Returns to Paris, but then accused of writing derogatory poems that he probably didn't write. He is sentenced to Bastille for 11 months. He begins to write Henriade.
 * 1722:** Began to be a "secret diplomat" to Dubois.
 * 1723:** Published Henriade.[[image:http://covers.openlibrary.org/b/olid/OL23308967M-M.jpg width="198" height="234" caption="Voltaire's Henriade"]]
 * 1726:** Sent to Bastille as a result of a quarrel with Chevalier de Rohan. He is released after 2 weeks and exiled to England. He then learns English and watches Shakespear productions for the next 3 years.
 * 1732:** Publishes a play called Zaire.
 * 1733:** Publishes //Letters on the English Nation.// It gets him in trouble because the criticism of English is really criticism for the Church and France. He flees to Lorraine and spends 15 years at Chateau in Cirey.
 * 1735:** Can return to Paris, but remained in Cirey. He only sometimes went to Paris.
 * 1745:** Appointed Royal Historiographer of France.
 * 1746:** Goes to French Academy.
 * 1748:** Publishes a philosophical tale called Zadig.
 * 1751:** Goes to Berlin. He serves as a philosopher/poet to Fredrick the Great. He stays 3 years.
 * 1753:** Leaves Berlin because of a quarrel over rights with Fredrick.
 * 1754:** Not allowed into France. Moves to a Geneva chalet that he calls Les Delices. There, he meets Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
 * 1759:** Moves to Ferney on French soil.
 * 1763:** Publishes Treatise on Tolerance
 * 1764:** Publishes Dictionaire philosophique[[image:http://www.iisg.nl/exhibitions/censorship/images/ab-n67.jpg width="219" height="252" caption="Voltaire's Dictionare Philosophique"]]
 * 1778:** Returns to Paris as a hero. On May 30, he dies in his sleep.

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