Castles and chateaux of old Burgundy and the border provinces (1909)
Mansfield, Milburg Francisco, 1871- [from old catalog] · Boston, L. C. Page & company · leaf 266
brilliant wit were shed over thewhole literary world of the eighteenth century. After his flight from Berlin, Voltaire, theSeigneur de Fernay, founded Fernay, withinsix kilometres of the frontier and Geneva, andsought to attract Swiss watch-makers thitherthat a similar industry might there be… … r% fe. O^ -Si On the Swiss Border 205 furniture and portraits of the time of the satir-ist. At the entrance to the chateau is a tinychapel, built also by Voltaire when he was inthat particular mood. Over its portal it bearsthe following words, Deo Erexit VoltaireMDCCLXI. Arsene Houssaye called…
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