Europe 1 Studio SEASON 2021 - 202207h00, September 23, 2021
Voltaire's death is steeped in mysteries.
Some say that his coffin, in the Pantheon, would be empty… In this new episode of the Europe 1 Studio podcast "At the heart of History", Clémentine Portier-Kaltenbach leads the investigation, and reveals to you where the remains of the great philosopher of the Enlightenment.
On September 18, 1897, in the Pantheon, a research commission proceeds to the opening of Voltaire's tomb… A crowd of curious people is present at the macabre rendezvous.
In this new episode of the Europe 1 Studio podcast "At the heart of History", Clémentine Portier-Kaltenbach reveals whether or not Voltaire's body is in the Panthéon!
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"At the heart of history" is a Europe 1 Studio podcast
Writing and presentation: Clémentine Portier-Kaltenbach
Production: Timothée Magot
Director: Oscar Vataire
Distribution and editing: Clémence Olivier with Salomé Journo
Graphics: Sidonie Mangin
Bibliographical references:
"The death of Voltaire", article by Jacques Bréhant, Sem.
Hospital, 1984
"Appendix to the life of Voltaire by Condorcet", by Gustave Avenel and Émile de la Bédollière, 1867
"Voltaire's brain, what remains of it", G. Variot, Bulletin of the French Society for the History of Medicine, 1927
"Stories of bones and other illustrious abattis", Clémentine Portier-Kaltenbach, JC Lattès, 2006