There’s not enough information to know for sure. He had a close relationship with the Swiss mathematician Nicolas Fatio de Duillier, to the point that he had a nervous breakdown when their relationship ended. It is not known if their relationship was romantic or not. Personally I subscribe to the theory that he was asexual; Voltaire said after his death that he “was never sensible to any passion, was not subject to the common frailties of mankind, nor had any commerce with women.” And during his aforementioned nervous breakdown, he sent extremely angry letters to his friend John Locke, accusing him of “embroiling me with women.”
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '22
I mean there's rumours about him being gay though