Christian Observer,  1 (1802), 574–77.

[Death of Voltaire]

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Genre:

Letter, Introduction; Extract

Publications extracted:

Barruel 1797–98

Subjects:

Unbelief, Religion, Humanism, Medical Practitioners

People mentioned:

François M A de Voltaire


    Extracts an account of the death of Voltaire so that readers may have the 'opportunity of contemplating the end of a man whose life was unremittingly employed in the endeavours to crush Christ and his cause' (574). The extract claims that a number of 'conspirators', including Jean Le R d'Alembert and Denis Diderot, scuppered Voltaire's attempt to confess his sins before he died. States that 'his physicians, particularly M. Tronchin, calling in to administer relief, thunderstruck, retire[d], declaring the death of the impious man to be terrible indeed' (576).



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