Shortly after that tragedy, the French writer Voltaire published his Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne (Poem on the Lisbon Disaster), in which he dismissed the claim that the catastrophe was divine retribution for the sins of the people.
بُعَيد تلك الكارثة ،‏ نشر الكاتب الفرنسي ڤولتير قصيدة عن الكارثة في لشبونة ‏ (‏ بالفرنسية )‏ .‏