This man was beaten and imprisoned without trial after daring to take offense at an insult from the nobleman de  Rohan.
This man was beaten and imprisoned without trial after daring to take offense at an insult from the nobleman de  Rohan. This man's most important philosophical work was a call for freedom of speech and religious tolerance  called Letters Concerning the English Nation. This man's most productive period was when he had the noted  mathematician Madame Émilie du Chatelet as his muse. A major figure of the enlightenment, he is most famous  today for his wit and a counterblast he wrote against Positivism. In his most famous work, the title character is  kicked out of Baron Thunder-ten-Tronckh's castle for kissing Cunegonde. For 10 points, name this French  philosopher ,  the author of Candide.
This man was beaten and imprisoned without trial after daring to take offense at an insult from the nobleman de  Rohan.
Voltaire [or Francois-Marie Arouet]