<Ul> <Li> Jeremy Bentham, Lord Byron, Catherine the Great, Denis Diderot, Frederick the Great, William Godwin, Christopher Hitchens, Victor Hugo, Karl Marx, Napoleon, Thomas Paine, Jean - Jacques Rousseau, Percy Bysshe Shelley, David Strauss, Mary Wollstonecraft </Li> </Ul> <Li> Jeremy Bentham, Lord Byron, Catherine the Great, Denis Diderot, Frederick the Great, William Godwin, Christopher Hitchens, Victor Hugo, Karl Marx, Napoleon, Thomas Paine, Jean - Jacques Rousseau, Percy Bysshe Shelley, David Strauss, Mary Wollstonecraft </Li> <P> François - Marie Arouet (French: (fʁɑ̃. swa ma. ʁi aʁ. wɛ); 21 November 1694--30 May 1778), known by his nom de plume Voltaire (/ voʊlˈtɛər /; French: (vɔl. tɛːʁ)), was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church and Christianity as a whole and his advocacy of freedom of religion, freedom of speech and separation of church and state . </P> <P> Voltaire was a versatile and prolific writer, producing works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays and historical and scientific works . He wrote more than 20,000 letters and more than 2,000 books and pamphlets . He was an outspoken advocate of civil liberties, despite the risk this placed him in under the strict censorship laws of the time . As a satirical polemicist, he frequently made use of his works to criticize intolerance, religious dogma and the French institutions of his day . </P>

Who was the french philosopher and writer who criticized injustices in religion and politics