Europe 1 Studio SEASON 2021 - 202207:00 a.m., March 03, 2022
Voltaire's death is steeped in mystery.
Some claim 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 Enlightenment philosopher.
On September 18, 1897, at the Panthéon, a research commission proceeded to the opening of Voltaire's tomb... A crowd of curious people was 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 Pantheon!
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"At the heart of history" is a Europe 1 Studio podcast
Writing and presentation: Clémentine Portier-Kaltenbach
Producer: Timothée Magot
Directed by: Oscar Vataire
Broadcaster: Eloise Bertil
Graphics: Sidonie Mangin
Bibliographic references:
"The death of Voltaire", article by Jacques Bréhant, Sem.
Hop, 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 slaughters", Clémentine Portier-Kaltenbach, JC Lattès, 2006