In 1717, Voltaire, then 23, was sent to the Bastille for the first time.

Satire and a confession had brought him to prison.

He was the author of a poem about the rumor that Philippe of Orléans, the short reigning brother of the late Sun King, had fathered a child with his daughter.

He had denied his authorship and was sent into exile as punishment.

After his return he revealed himself as the author.

During the ten months of imprisonment he wrote Oedipus, the play to the mocking poem, which the Comédie Française performed to great acclaim.

In his first work, François-Marie Arouet, who was born the son of a notary, also dealt with doubts about his own origins.

From then on he called himself Voltaire, and meanwhile a whole century is named after him.

He fought for the freedom of opinion, including for those who thought differently, and took great risks to do so – the second stay in the Bastille was, after all, shorter.

Undaunted, he criticized the fanaticism of religions.

In Paris he was denied a Catholic burial in 1778 and the mummified corpse – without heart and brain – was sent to his adopted home of Geneva, but was buried for the first time halfway there.

The revolutionaries took his remains to the Pantheon after the storming of the Bastille.

MeToo, Islamists, anti-racists in one boat

Today the new revolutionaries persecute him worse than the Catholics once did.

The Islamists have been preventing the performance of his play "Mahomet the Prophet" for thirty years.

In the Arab world, Voltaire is an enemy like "Charlie Hebdo".

He had benefited from the slave trade and shared the racial prejudices of his era - but overcame them in the course of his life and thought.

Even the courageous accusation of sexual abuse of their own daughter by the absolutist ruler was in no way honored as a mitigating circumstance when the "intersectionality" of MeToo, the Islamists and anti-racists at the "Black Lives Matter" demonstrations went to the symbolic murder of the enlightener .

It was carried out as a paint attack on his statue near the Académie Française.

For two years she has been cleaned in a workshop.

The forced stay in the depot has long since become a symbol of France's intellectual capitulation to Islamism.

Now the posthumous fate of the satirist is also becoming a contemporary real satire: the statue will soon be erected in the inner courtyard of the medical faculty.

It can be closed by an iron gate.

Here it is almost as safe as Voltaire's heart and brain preserved in the National Library (BNF) and the Comédie Française.

Like 305 years ago, Voltaire has to go straight out of exile behind bars.