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After many years of moving and writing/experimenting with Marquise du Châtelet about natural sciences, Voltaire returned to Paris.  It had been twenty-eight years since his last visit to Paris.  After seeing one of his own plays being preformed he started writing another tragedy, ''Irene''.  He wrote until he became ill and died in 1778.  Upon his deathbed, Voltaire ended his long strife with the church by making a final confession in order to be buried on hallowed ground.  The church, however, was not so forgiving and refused to allow his remains to be buried on sanctified grounds, but the body had already been buried.  “He was buried in the Abbey of Scellères, and his body was transferred to the Panthéon on July 10, 1791, during the French Revolution. In 1814, after the first fall of Napoleon and the restoration of the House of Bourbon monarchy, Voltaire's bones were removed from the Pantheon and destroyed. His heart is preserved at La Comedie Francaise”(1).  Fifty years passed before the desecration of Voltaire's remains was discovered.  By that time his brain had been sold at auction and somewhere along the way, disappeared (IMDB).

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