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Voltaire, plaster sculpture by Jean-Antoine Houdon; in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California.
Voltaire received his early education at the Jesuit college of Louis-le-Grand in Paris. During his time there, he developed a deep appreciation for literature, the theater, and social life. While the college instilled in him a classical taste, the religious instruction he received from the Jesuit fathers ultimately served to stimulate his skepticism and mockery of established doctrines.1