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Figure 11

Figure 11
Voltaire’s remains led through Paris on July 11, 1791. (Photo courtesy on the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris

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Enemies of the Enlightenment could thus point to the political developments of the first two years of the Revolution’s philosophic character, the revolutionaries themselves provided the ultimate proof in the spring and summer of 1791, voting to move the remains of Voltaire from his former estate at Ferney to the Church of Sainte-Genevieve, recently transformed into the resting place of the ‘grand hommes’ of the Revolution -- the Pantheon; in the lavish celebration of his internment held on July 11, the revolutionary shet the last of their veils in open acknowledgment of the origins and ends of their undertaking.

Voltaire, of course, was already something of a deity. He had been treated as such at his “first” apotheosis, the Parisian reception of 1778, and the events of the Revolution only heightened his stature. . . . Page 83

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