In one of his works, the protagonist becomes a popular vaudeville singer but is forced to seek help from his old school roommate when his father goes bankrupt, and in another, Ithuriel sends the title character to Persepolis to determine whether the Persians deserve destruction.  
This figure is described as "cajoling, scolding, screaming, cleverest of them all" in a poem which declares "all over Europe stood the horrible nurses / waiting to boil their children" written by W. H. Auden.  In one of his works, the protagonist becomes a popular vaudeville singer but is forced to seek help from his old school roommate when his father goes bankrupt, and in another, Ithuriel sends the title character to Persepolis to determine whether the Persians deserve destruction.  In addition to Jeannot and Colin and Babouc, in one of his plays, Zopire is murdered and revealed to be the father of the betrothed couple Palmire and Seide, and in another, Zamore is pardoned by Gusman and allowed to marry the titular Aztec princess.  In addition to Mahomet and Alzire, he wrote a novel following a Babylonian who serves King Moabdar and eventually marries Queen Astarte.  FTP, name this French author of Zadig.
This figure is described as "cajoling, scolding, screaming, cleverest of them all" in a poem which declares "all over Europe stood the horrible nurses / waiting to boil their children" written by W. H. Auden.  
Voltaire