Mirror of Literature,  12 (1828), 62–64.

Voltaire. (From Various Authorities)

Philo

Genre:

Biography

Subjects:

Scientific Practitioners, Representation, Heroism, Entomology

People mentioned:

François Huber , Pierre Huber


    Describes Voltaire's bedroom, 'just as he left it in 1777', round the walls of which were 'bad prints of Washington, Franklin, Sir Isaac Newton, and several other celebrated personages' (62). A footnote relates an anecdote concerning the Huber family.



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