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    around n°41. Rue de Lille (Paris) Rue du Pont-Neuf, Paris "Rue Voltaire à Sceaux". cartorum.fr (in French). Retrieved 2023-09-08. "Rue Voltaire | Archives...
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    The Rue de Lille (Street of Lille) is a street in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, France, in the upscale Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin and Invalides quarters...
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    meters long, the Quai Anatole-France begins after the Quai Voltaire, at the level of the Rue du Bac, and continues as the Quai d'Orsay, from the Boulevard...
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    (Westminster) patronized by French refugees. In 1791 he lived at 550, Rue Notre-Dame, Lille. On 17 May 1793 he appeared as a witness at the Tribunal Révolutionnaire...
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    tortured and beheaded before his body was burnt on a pyre along with Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary nailed to his torso. La Barre is often said to...
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    de Torcy (later the hôtel de Beauharnais, now the German Embassy 78, rue de Lille). There his magnificent installation among his tapestries, furnishings...
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    operated from Lille, while Ruault worked at the Hôtel de Hollande, acquired by Beaumarchais on rue Vieille-du-Temple, where Voltaire's manuscripts were...
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    abundance. Photograph by Jean Andrieu. Paris Museums. Corner of rue de Lille and rue du Bac. Photograph by Jean Andrieu. 1871, Musée Carnavalet, Paris...
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    time. Born in Damery, she first appeared professionally on the stage in Lille. After her Paris debut at the Comédie-Française in 1717, she was immensely...
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    life of Paris revolved around the cafés and salons; it was dominated by Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Pierre de Marivaux and Pierre Beaumarchais. During...
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