Similarities Between Voltaire And Jacques Louis David

Identify three notable thinkers or writers during the Enlightenment, and briefly identify the significant works/ideas from each of them. From the nation of France out of the European nation I am choosing to write about Guillaume Thomas Raynal, Voltaire, and Jacques Louis David. All three of these men were around and played some sort of part during the during the Enlightenment. Voltaire who was born as Francois-Marie Arouet in Paris, France in 1694 was known for his poetry and plays, he also had works in historical and philosophical. Some of the Poetry he was well known for was The Henriade and even though he never finished this one The Maid of Orleans. The plays that he wrote and are best remembered by are Sophocles’ tragedy Oedipus which was followed by a bunch of dramatic tragedies that included Mariamne, Zaire, Mahomet and Nanine, He also had writing that were well known in called The Age of Louis XIV and Essay on the Customs and the Spirit of the Nations. His short stories included Micromegas and Plato’s Dream as well as
possibly his most famous writing of all the novel Candide which was wrote in 1759 which was trying to get the message across about trying to improve society. Outside of his writings Voltaire liked to rattle the cages of people as he did not care for the Protestant and the Catholics.
Jacques-Louis David was born in Paris, France in 1748, was known as the greatest painter of his generation for various paintings that he did and how well he painted them. During the revolution he was apart of the vocal critic of the academy as he worked for Louis XVI at the court. David was known for painting some of the most memorable paintings from different people and places, in 1789 he painted a portrait of the oat that included the members of the National Assembly, during the same period he also included a couple more notable images that were known as Joseph Bara and Death of Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau and in 1793 he painted The death of Marat which to some is considered his best work even of the painting at the tennis courts. One of his later achievements before passing away was being appointed to be the first painter of Napoleon.
Guillaume-Thomas Raynal was born in Lapanouse, Franse in 1713, he was a writer that in my opinion did not make to many people happy by the time he passed away.
He was known for three of his writing which were one of the Netherlands and another writing on the English Parliament, both of these writings were not of the greatest but both were still popular and read by a lot of the people. Raynal was well known for his writing of the Histoire des deu Indes which was about the history of the East and West Indies that was spread out over six different volumes. The popularity of this work was so well that it went through 30 different editions and his Denis Diderot was credited with the better passages. He was elected to the Estates-general but has a strong passion against violence and did not want to serve, and even wrote a message to the National Assembly who later confiscated his property for his beliefs which led him to dying in poverty in
1796.