This man led a vigorous campaign to exonerate a Protestant named Jean Calas.
This man led a vigorous campaign to exonerate a Protestant named Jean Calas. He recorded howthe Count of Auteroche said to the English, "Gentlemen, we never fire first, fire yourselves" in apoem on the Battle of Fontenoy that won him a spot as royal historiographer. This "Innkeeper ofEurope" helped renovate a church in Ferney at which he gave a sacrilegious sermon praisingstealing. This man got into a spat with the (*) Chevalier de Rohan and later wrote the history, The Age ofLouis XIV. He wrote the History article for the Encyclopedia and an epic poem about Henry IV. In anotherwork, he wondered whether London or Paris were more worthy subjects for God's wrath than Lisbon in apoem about a 1755 earthquake. For 10 points, name this author of Candide.
This man led a vigorous campaign to exonerate a Protestant named Jean Calas.
Voltaire [or Francois-Marie Arouet]