Though the two never met in person, Voltaire was an enthusiastic acolyte of the English physicist and mathematician Sir Isaac Newton. He had a brief career as a spy for the French government. Voltaire struck up a lively correspondence with Frederick the Great in the late s, and he later made several journeys to meet the Prussian monarch in person. Before one of these visits in , Voltaire concocted an ill-advised scheme to use his new position to repair his reputation with the French court.
Voltaire proved a lousy spy, however, and his plan quickly fell apart after Frederick grew suspicious of his motives. Their relationship finally soured in , after Voltaire made a series of scathing attacks on the head of the Prussian Academy of Sciences.
Frederick responded by lambasting Voltaire, and ordered that a satirical pamphlet he had written be publically burned.
Illustration of Voltaire translating the work of Isaac Newton. He never married or fathered children. While Voltaire technically died a bachelor, his personal life was a revolving door of mistresses, paramours and long-term lovers. He set up a successful watchmaking business in his old age. While living in Ferney, Switzerland, in the s, Voltaire joined with a group of Swiss horologists in starting a watchmaking business at his estate.
With the septuagenarian Voltaire acting as manager and financier, the endeavor soon grew into a village-wide industry, and Ferney watches came to rival some of the best in Europe. He continued causing controversy even in death. Voltaire died in Paris in , just a few months after returning to the city for the first time in 28 years to oversee the production of one of his plays.
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