<diacritize> 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 . <yor>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 . 