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A character created by this author is fined 400 ounces of gold after describing the king's runaway palfrey to the Head Huntsman without actually seeing it. That character later recognizes his former lover after she writes his name in the sand while she is attempting to find a basilisk to cure her master's sickness. While in a library, the title character of a novel by this man argues about the merits of Milton and Plato with the Venetian nobleman Pococurante before dining with six previously deposed kings at an inn with his valet (*) Martin. A character created by this author loses his lover Semire after being shot in the eye with an arrow, and later marries Astarte, the Queen of the Babylonians. This author created a professor of "metaphysico-theologo-cosmonigology" who tutors the lover of Cunegonde in a satirical novella. For 10 points, name this author of Zadig and Candide.
A character created by this author is fined 400 ounces of gold after describing the king's runaway palfrey to the Head Huntsman without actually seeing it.
Voltaire [or François-Marie Arouet]