1. The origins of his pen name are unclear. Voltaire had a bad relationship with his father, who discouraged his aspirations and tried to force him into a legal career. Possibly to show his rejection of his father's vales, he dropped his family name and adopted the pen name "Voltaire" after finishing his first play in 1718.
2. Voltaire set up a successful watchmaking business in his old age. While living in Ferney, Switzerland, in the 1770s, Voltaire joined a group of Swiss horologists and started a watchmaking business.
3. Voltaire was a follow of Isaac Newton. He never actually met the English physicist, but he helped popularize his works. After reading "Principia Mathematica" by Newton, Voltaire knelt down before the book in awe allegedly. He also supposedly help spread the tale of Sir Isaac Newton and the apple.
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