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	VOLTAIRE - LoveToKnow Article on VOLTAIRE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		He was here practically at the meeting-point of four distinct jurisdictions Geneva, the canton Vaud, Sardinia and France, while other cantons were within easy reach; and he bought other houses dotted about these territories, so as never to be without a refuge close at hand in case of sudden storms.
		Her pet name was l3elle et Bonne, and nobody had more to do with the happiness of the last years of the patriarch than she had.
		His heart, taken from the body when it was embalmed, and given to Madame Denis and by her to Madame de Villette, was preserved in a silver case, and when it was proposed (in 1864) to restore it to
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	Voltaire
		On July 10, 1791, the body was transferred to the Panthéon, but during the Hundred Days it was once more, it is said, disentombed, and stowed away in a piece of waste ground.
		His heart, taken from the body when it was embalmed, and given to Madame Denis and by her to Madame de Villette, was preserved in a silver case, and when it was proposed (in 1864) to restore it to the other remains, the sarcophagus at Sainte-Genevieve (the Panthéon) was opened and found to be empty.
		In person Voltaire was not engaging, even as a young man. His extraordinary thinness is commemorated, among other things, by the very poor but well-known epigram attributed to Young, and identifying him at once with "Satan, Death and Sin".
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/v/vo/voltaire.html (8549 words)

	Voltaire a History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		He was here practically at the meeting-point of four distinct jurisdictions — Geneva, the canton Vaud, Sardinia and France, while other cantons were within easy reach; and he bought other houses dotted about these territories, so as never to be without a refuge close at hand in case of sudden storms.
		On the 10th of July 1791 the body was transferred to the Panthéon, but during the Hundred Days it was once more, it is said, disentombed, and stowed away in a piece of waste ground.
		He never seems to have been addicted to any manly sport, and took little exercise.
	www.sullivan-county.com /z/voltaire.htm (7718 words)

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