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Did Voltaire Favor torture

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Answer: No 100% right

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No because one of the greatest documents ever written against torture,and central understanding why the enlightenment opposed it, is Voltaire's Treatise on Tolerance. Voltaire defended Calas in print and made the case a cause célèbre of the time.

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