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Voltaire, plaster sculpture by Jean-Antoine Houdon; in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California.
Voltaireās birth name was FranƧois-Marie Arouet. He adopted the pen name "Voltaire" in 1718 following the success of his tragedy Oedipe.12