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The 39 pages that link to Voltaire, each with the reason it gives.

• Jean-Jacques RousseauCompared with: Voltaire’s faith in intellectual criticism and progress clashed with Rousseau’s critique of refinement.

• French literatureRelated: His literary works joined wit to Enlightenment criticism of power and intolerance.

• Catherine the GreatRelated: Their correspondence helped associate Catherine’s court with European Enlightenment culture.

• Frederick the GreatRelated: His long correspondence and personal visits connected Frederick's court to French Enlightenment culture.

• Denis DiderotRelated: Voltaire shared Diderot’s campaigns for intellectual freedom, though their philosophical commitments differed.

• MontesquieuRelated: His reformist criticism offers a close contemporary comparison to Montesquieu’s institutional analysis.

• French EnlightenmentRelated: His attacks on intolerance and arbitrary power gave the movement a widely read voice.

• Censorship in FranceRelated: His works faced bans and prosecution, while he used exile and foreign publication to reach readers.

• Enlightened absolutismRelated: His advocacy of toleration and contact with royal courts linked Enlightenment criticism to monarchical reform.

• Émilie du ChâteletRelated: Du Châtelet collaborated with Voltaire at Cirey and helped shape his understanding of Newtonian science.

• Jean-Philippe RameauRelated: Their planned collaboration illustrates Rameau’s engagement with leading writers of his era.

• Religious skepticismRelated: His polemics made criticism of religious institutions and dogma part of public debate.

• Age of EnlightenmentRelated: His satire and advocacy made criticism of clerical and state authority publicly influential.

• 1755 Lisbon earthquakeRelated: The earthquake prompted his poem and became central to his critique of optimistic theodicy.

• Madame de PompadourRelated: Their correspondence and shared interest in patronage connected her court circle with Enlightenment letters.

• CandideRelated: He wrote Candide amid a career of attacks on dogmatism and intolerance.

• James BoswellRelated: Boswell visited Voltaire in Ferney during his European travels.

• Jean le Rond d’AlembertRelated: D’Alembert corresponded with Voltaire and shared his challenges to religious authority.

• Pierre Louis MaupertuisRelated: Voltaire praised the Lapland expedition before later satirizing Maupertuis in the dispute surrounding the Berlin Academy.

• Cesare BeccariaRelated: Voltaire’s commentary helped circulate and publicize Beccaria’s arguments in France.

• NewtonianismRelated: Voltaire helped make Newtonian ideas accessible to French intellectual life.

• Alexis ClairautRelated: Voltaire publicized the Newtonian controversy over Earth’s shape in which Clairaut worked.

• François-René de ChateaubriandCompared with: Voltaire’s skepticism offers a pointed counterpoint to Chateaubriand’s defense of Christianity.

• Pierre BayleRelated: Voltaire inherited debates about toleration and religious authority that Bayle had helped shape.

• Pope Benedict XIVRelated: Voltaire praised Benedict, an unusual point of contact between papal authority and Enlightenment culture.

• TolerationRelated: His attacks on persecution made toleration a public cause in eighteenth-century France.

• Anders ChydeniusRelated: His public defense of toleration parallels one of Chydenius's central reform concerns.

• AnticlericalismRelated: His polemics made attacks on clerical privilege central to public debate.

• Giacomo CasanovaRelated: Casanova met Voltaire in 1760 and later described their exchange in his memoirs.

• 18th centuryRelated: His writings made Enlightenment criticism of intolerance and arbitrary power widely known.

• French philosophyBroader topic: His polemical writing carried Enlightenment criticism into public debate.

• Julien Offray de La MettrieRelated: Voltaire's reactions illustrate the contested place of La Mettrie's atheistic materialism among contemporaries.

• PhilosophesRelated: His campaigns against persecution made tolerance a defining philosophe cause.

• SanssouciRelated: His stay at Sanssouci linked the palace to Frederick’s intellectual circle.

• Claude Adrien HelvétiusRelated: Voltaire defended Helvétius amid the controversy surrounding De l'esprit.

• Enlightenment philosophyRelated: His satire and advocacy of toleration made criticism of clerical and political power widely visible.

• Francesco AlgarottiRelated: Voltaire also helped introduce Newtonian thought to European literary audiences.

• Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d’ArgensRelated: Both writers became prominent critics of dogma, though their careers and arguments differed.

• Pierre Choderlos de LaclosRelated: Voltaire’s sharp social criticism offers a useful parallel to Laclos’s literary scrutiny.