"L'écriture est la peinture de la voix."
French writer & philosopher François-Marie Arouet died #OTD in 1778.
Voltaire left his mark on his era through his literary output and political commitments. His influence on the educated classes was considerable in the decades preceding the French Revolution & in the early 19th century, but diminished thereafter with the triumph of Rousseauist philosophy & the development of pre-Romanticism.
Voltaire at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/913