Short answers, pulled from the story.
François-Marie Arouet was born on the 21st of November 1694 in Paris, but he later claimed to have been born on the 20th of February 1694 as the illegitimate son of a nobleman named Guérin de Rochebrune.
Voltaire adopted the name Voltaire during his eleven-month imprisonment in the Bastille from the 16th of May 1717 to the 15th of April 1718 as an anagram of his own surname to suggest speed and daring.
Émilie du Châtelet was a mathematician and married mother of three who was twelve years Voltaire's junior, and their affair lasted sixteen years from 1733 until 1744.
Voltaire died on the 30th of May 1778 at the age of 83 after returning to Paris in February 1778 to see the opening of his latest tragedy Irène.
The National Assembly of France brought Voltaire's remains back to Paris and enshrined them in the Panthéon on the 11th of July 1791, and an estimated million people attended the procession.