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Voltaire: Letters Concerning The English Nation

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Voltaire Voltaire (François-Marie d’Arouet), was a public activist who played a singular role in defining the 18th Century Enlightenment. He was also a French philosopher, writer, and historian in the 1700’s.
He wrote quite a few works but only a few are still read today. Voltaire wrote many works such as the ‘Treatise on Tolerance’, one of his more famous works is ‘Letters Concerning the English Nation’, in which he first proposes the views of Locke and Newton to the French citizens. He also wrote Candide, and Dictionnaire Philosophique, as well as Traite de Metaphysique.
At the center of Voltaire’s work was a new concept of philosophy and the philosopher which in several crucial respects influenced the more modern concept of
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