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Francois Voltaire is a French writer and philosopher born in 1694. Voltaire was a prolific writer and did many activities in most fields of literature. He was a supporter of freedom of speech in Europe and he insisted on the freedom of the press, which forced him to censor his works. He was imprisoned in Bastille Castle on May 16, 1717 for 1 year. In 1726, after a verbal discussion with a French nobleman named Chevalier Rohan, he returned to the Bastille once again. Then, at his own suggestion, instead of being imprisoned, he was exiled to England. The English community welcomed his arrival and produced important literary works during his stay in England, and in 1747 he wrote the story of Sadiq. Siddiq and Candide are two remarkable and interesting books of this prolific author. In this book, Voltaire does not stick to the historical and geographical issues of his story and shows the issues and problems of Sadiq with a thin cover of the issues and problems of Voltaire's own time. This book deals with the philosophical basis of human life by using a Persian story. Voltaire dedicated this book to Iranian poet and thinker Saadi. He got acquainted with Saadi's works through Golestan book and became his disciple. Among his friends, he was called Saadi. Voltaire was not the only one who was mesmerized by Saadi's greatness.