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 .
Shortly after that tragedy , the French writer Voltaire published his Poeme sur le desastre 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 .