# Voltaire — Representative Men character guide

> Voltaire in Representative Men by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0004-iv-montaigne-or-the-skeptic

## Who they are

French Enlightenment writer, mentioned as a skeptic and wit.

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