Voltaire's plays and verse made him the toast of society, but his wit and commitment to reason also got him into trouble. His personal life was as colorful as h... » 

Voltaire's plays and verse made him the toast of society, but his wit and commitment to reason also got him into trouble. His personal life was as colorful as his intellectual one. With its tale of illegitimacy, prison, stardom, exile, love affairs, and battles against critic, priest, and king, this is a biography of the father of Enlightenment. «