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Private Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794) Volume 2 (of 2)

Note 176 — 572.

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Voltaire died at Paris in May, 1778. His body, lest burial should be refused, was carried to the Abbey of Scellières. Thence the remains were brought, Sunday, July 10, 1791, to the ruins of the Bastille, and placed the next day in the Pantheon.

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