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When was Voltaire imprisoned in the Bastille?

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Because of insults to the regent, Philippe II d'OrlŽans, wrongly ascribed to him, Voltaire was sent to the Bastille (1717) for 11 months. There he rewrote his first tragedy, Îdipe (1718), and began an epic poem on Henry IV, the Henriade. It was at this time that he began to call himself Voltaire.

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