This author also wrote about an Ottoman slave who discovers her long-lost brother Nerestan shortly before dying at the hands of her lover, the sultan Orosmane.  
One of this author's characters is guided by a hermit reading the "book of fate" who turns out to be the angel Jesrad. This author also wrote about an Ottoman slave who discovers her long-lost brother Nerestan shortly before dying at the hands of her lover, the sultan Orosmane.  This author wrote about a Sirian and a Saturnian who examine Earth in another work. The protagonist of this author's most famous work witnesses the execution of a British admiral who didn't kill enough enemy sailors before arriving in Venice, where he meets six kings who have come to see a carnival and realizes that (*) Paquette is now living with Brother Giroflee.  That characterthen departs for Transylvania, where the damsel he seeks, Cunegonde, now works as a maid and has become ugly.  For ten points, name this French author of Candide.
One of this author's characters is guided by a hermit reading the "book of fate" who turns out to be the angel Jesrad.
{Voltaire} or Francois Marie {Arouet}