Ferney-Voltaire (French pronunciation: [fɛʁ'nɛ vɔl'tɛʁ]) is a commune in the Ain department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of eastern France. It lies...
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Château de Voltaire is located in Ferney-Voltaire (Ain) in France, close to the border with Switzerland and the city of Geneva. It was Voltaire’s home between...
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The canton of Ferney-Voltaire is a former administrative division in eastern France. It was disbanded following the French canton reorganisation which...
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Lycée international de Ferney-Voltaire is a public secondary school in Ferney-Voltaire, Ain, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France. The school serves junior high...
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larger estate at Ferney, on the French side of the Franco-Swiss border. The town would adopt his name, calling itself Ferney-Voltaire, and this became...
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Jean-Louis Wagnière (category Voltaire)
Switzerland – 7 April 1802, Ferney-Voltaire) was Voltaire's secretary from 1756 to 1778, when Voltaire died. Wagnière entered Voltaire’s service as his valet...
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Émilie du Châtelet (section Relationship with Voltaire)
also known as the intellectual collaborator with and romantic partner of Voltaire. Numerous biographies, books and plays have been written about her life...
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Nations. Retrieved 12 January 2024. Falquet, Cathy (13 July 2019). "Ferney-Voltaire : les jeunes de 28 pays se mettent dans la peau de diplomates". www...
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Ferme générale (section Voltaire and the fermiers)
marrying into aristocracy. In his Voltaire, A Life (pp. 427–31), Ian Davidson describes events on Voltaire's estate at Ferney, north of Geneva, in the 1770s...
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as a pub sign (“enseigne à bière”). Voltaire owned the original painting, which is still in the collection at Ferney. Duplessis himself created several...
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