Voltaire was the pioneer of the Enlightenment and the founder of the idealist historiography school. As a new bourgeoisie, Voltaire's works reflect that he is completely a bourgeois spokesman. Voltaire expanded the research field of history and regarded history as a whole about human activities in many aspects. Voltaire's contribution to historical science is that he dares to deny the traditional world historical system and explain it from a non-religious perspective.
Looking at the world, denying Eurocentrism and making a comprehensive comparative study of human history as a whole have broadened people's horizons of understanding the world. Voltaire believes that history is a process of continuous development and perfection. He believes that human history is constantly advancing and society is constantly developing, and eventually everything will be broken and reach an ideal realm. And this has nothing to do with god's will.
Voltaire's family background:
Voltaire was born in a wealthy middle-class family in Paris. He is the youngest of five children (only three children survived in the end). Father Francois? Arouette was a legal notary and later served as the treasurer of the Audit College. Virgin Mary? Margaret. Duma comes from a noble family in poitou province. Voltaire was educated in the Jesuits and Louis the Great Middle School in Paris.
After Voltaire graduated from middle school, his father sent him to a law school, hoping that he would become a judge in the future. However, Voltaire wanted to be a poet and "face everything and fight everything" in order to defend the truth. So he seldom goes to school to attend classes, but often writes some satirical impromptu poems. He is good at attacking social ugliness with witty satire. He said: "Laughter can conquer everything, and it is the most powerful weapon."